Ontdek de Fascinerende Wereld van UFO's en UAP's: Jouw Bron voor Onthullende Informatie!
Ben jij ook gefascineerd door het onbekende? Wil je meer weten over UFO's en UAP's, niet alleen in België, maar over de hele wereld? Dan ben je op de juiste plek!
België: Het Kloppend Hart van UFO-onderzoek
In België is BUFON (Belgisch UFO-Netwerk) dé autoriteit op het gebied van UFO-onderzoek. Voor betrouwbare en objectieve informatie over deze intrigerende fenomenen, bezoek je zeker onze Facebook-pagina en deze blog. Maar dat is nog niet alles! Ontdek ook het Belgisch UFO-meldpunt en Caelestia, twee organisaties die diepgaand onderzoek verrichten, al zijn ze soms kritisch of sceptisch.
Nederland: Een Schat aan Informatie
Voor onze Nederlandse buren is er de schitterende website www.ufowijzer.nl, beheerd door Paul Harmans. Deze site biedt een schat aan informatie en artikelen die je niet wilt missen!
Internationaal: MUFON - De Wereldwijde Autoriteit
Neem ook een kijkje bij MUFON (Mutual UFO Network Inc.), een gerenommeerde Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in de VS en wereldwijd. MUFON is toegewijd aan de wetenschappelijke en analytische studie van het UFO-fenomeen, en hun maandelijkse tijdschrift, The MUFON UFO-Journal, is een must-read voor elke UFO-enthousiasteling. Bezoek hun website op www.mufon.com voor meer informatie.
Samenwerking en Toekomstvisie
Sinds 1 februari 2020 is Pieter niet alleen ex-president van BUFON, maar ook de voormalige nationale directeur van MUFON in Vlaanderen en Nederland. Dit creëert een sterke samenwerking met de Franse MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP, wat ons in staat stelt om nog meer waardevolle inzichten te delen.
Let op: Nepprofielen en Nieuwe Groeperingen
Pas op voor een nieuwe groepering die zich ook BUFON noemt, maar geen enkele connectie heeft met onze gevestigde organisatie. Hoewel zij de naam geregistreerd hebben, kunnen ze het rijke verleden en de expertise van onze groep niet evenaren. We wensen hen veel succes, maar we blijven de autoriteit in UFO-onderzoek!
Blijf Op De Hoogte!
Wil jij de laatste nieuwtjes over UFO's, ruimtevaart, archeologie, en meer? Volg ons dan en duik samen met ons in de fascinerende wereld van het onbekende! Sluit je aan bij de gemeenschap van nieuwsgierige geesten die net als jij verlangen naar antwoorden en avonturen in de sterren!
Heb je vragen of wil je meer weten? Aarzel dan niet om contact met ons op te nemen! Samen ontrafelen we het mysterie van de lucht en daarbuiten.
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Extra-terrestrial Life – What The ELITE Don’t Want You To Know!
It is now clear for many of us around the world that we are NOT alone and being visited by sophisticated Beings not of this world. From the findings that are being announced by leading scientists to admittance off people in the know from a position of authority that Aliens exists (Former Astronauts, Ex Politicians and even Obama!).
But the very unfortunate thing is that the Elite like hiding the truth in plain sight, which is a favourite tactic of the theirs against us all. I suppose the biggest factor working in the elites favour is massive and widespread public incredulity at their schemes, because let’s be honest with ourselves people, the scale of all this is simply unimaginable for the average Joe Bloggs to comprehend, and THIS is what those supposedly in control use to their advantage!
Its time for change against those few that control us!?
To be fair it is very hard to accept that a tiny little group of people, disconnected from all levels or care or compassion, empathy and the rest of humanity, would actively promote war, encourage depopulation and the destruction of our home Planet Earth, but the evidence proves it to the case: from Kissinger’s 1974 Memorandum 200 (depopulation) to the spraying of our skies with toxic metals (geo-engineering).
But please do not worry people, because as bad as this all is, it still has not gone so deep into the rabbit hole as of yet. The Elite keep getting over cocky and smart and If you really want an extreme version of hiding truth in plain sight of us all, then check out the short clip below of President Barack Obama glibly coats the truth of alien intervention with a layer of extremely calculated sarcasm…..but sometimes a persons eyes tells a thousand words Mr Obama!
“The Aliens Exercise Strict Control Over Us”
It is clear for the majority of people around the world watching this clip would have watched this and not given it a second thought and then walked just thinking that the whole thing was a joke. But people this response is EXACTLY the kind of pre-calculated response those supposedly in control want to encourage around the whole ‘Alien’ topic! They do this by hiding truth in plain view of us all by making it all into one big massive joke, or perhaps even turn it into science fiction perhaps some kind of movie which either mocks Aliens or makes them out to be the bad guys! This is all a far more effective strategy at shielding the true reality from a rather sceptical public than mere obfuscation or just a point blank denial. But the Elite need to remember one thing, the people of this world are wakening and people like us who know that we are being lied to, are helping to wake the world!
The people of this world are slowly but surely waking!
This particular theme of hiding truth in plain view of the world’s population can be found everywhere especially in the entertainment industries – kids cartoons, music videos, movies and comedy shows! – and one area which is usually highly used is science fiction. Age old Movies and TV series such as Star Trek and V are a particular way that the elite can release a little pressure but without having to engage in FULL open disclosure. And on the flip side of this It’s also a very cunning way that they can claim some plausible deniability, by explaining away all the evidence and shunning it all as “science fiction”….But indeed what we are being presented with is actually Science FACT!
When looking at movies and hiding hidden ‘truths’ look at even more recent films such as Jupiter Ascending, which has Reptilians in it, Alien Greys in it, Government cover-ups, Galactic rulers etc etc the list goes on….
The ‘Reptilian’ guest appearance in the film Jupiter Ascending.
And whilst the Elite believe that such comical rhetoric can keep the masses of this world in disbelief and ridicule, peoples’ minds may remain closed on a short term basis, but now thanks to technology people can see the truth, ‘Google’ the truth from the palm of their hand without of visiting a library. But think of the amount of UFO sightings around the world which are being captured daily on peoples HD cameras (everybody has a smartphone now)…..the world is slowly but surely going through an ‘Awakening’ process and people like us at U.I.P and yourselves are helping to speed up this process – the Waking of the Masses!
The truth is in the skies above us!
It is clear, and like most leading politicians, Barrack Obama is an extremely good actor! Just look at his delivery as he says these words below;
“The Aliens won’t let it happen.”
“They [Aliens] exercise strict control over us.”
“I can’t reveal anything.”
“That’s what we’re instructed to say.”
No matter how very hard Obama may try to hide the truth, he can’t hide the truth by acting skills. far too many of us in our millions, perhaps even BILLIONS already KNOW the truth about the Alien Beings presence here on Planet Earth, and guess what Obama and co, that number is only going to increase daily and there is NOTHING you can do to stop this!
Overwhelming Evidence Aliens Do Actually Exist
It’s important that if you actually take the time to properly study eyewitness testimonies, and also listen to visitation/abduction accounts and read the vast amount of declassified military documents on this topic, you will most definitely discover a HUGE amount of evidence which not only confirms the existence of ETs, but also that they have been here for a very long time and have already interacted with humanity – some of these Alien Beings have actually entered into set arrangements with our Governments, but sadly NOT in the best interest of humanity…..purely for greed and ‘control’ of the Elite!
Here is a sample of the thousands of credible sources, many of which come from hardened rational military men, who confirm that aliens do exist among us:
Former Command Sergeant Bob Dean who worked at SHAPE (Supreme Headquarters Allied Power Europe), the centre of NATO, who personally had many experiences of interacting with Nordic ETs. He reveals that the Shadow Government is deeply involved with ETs in underground facilities (e.g. with the jumproom connecting S4 [Area 51] in Nevada with Pine Gap in Australia) and how there is a big battle between the NWO factions that favour disclosure and the ones that vehemently oppose it.
Veteran Clifford Stone, who had a personal relationship with a green ET called Korona and has numerous alien tales. Some of these many involved his time in Vietnam where he went on UFO crash recovery missions. He even helped an alien escape from military custody! Stone has publicly stated many times there are 57 alien species already interacting with humanity in some way or another.
ET Contactee Alex Collier, who has had a long ongoing relationship with evolved beings from the Andromedan Galaxy. Throughout his many video interviews he discusses, in astonishing detail, the ET presence on Earth, the Reptilian control of our government and institutions, the truth about our Moon, bases on Mars, human treaties signed with evil alien races, the Government selling us out for greed and technology and many other topics.
Former US military man Phil Schneider, a brave whistleblower who not only encountered alien beings underground, but also got into a gun fight with them – killing one and wounding another. He was a geologist, structural engineer and underground tunneling expert who participated in the construction of many deep underground cities and bases in North America. In his many video presentations he describes in detail these cities, tunnels and bases, the Government’s secret deal with hostile ETs and advanced alien technology being used by secret US agencies.
ET Contactee Billy Meier, who was one of the first prolific contact stories. Meier was reportedly contacted by an extraterrestrial named Semjase who claimed to be from the Pleiades. She allowed him to take over 1000 clear daytime pictures of her craft and others like it as well as live video – in the 1970s before computers and Photoshop were widespread, so fakery would have been difficult or impossible.
Former US Air Force officer Charles Hall who became familiar with Areas 53 and 54 (called “Dreamland”) and the Dogbone Lake field where the ETs landed their craft. He actually lived with a certain species, which he describes as tall, thin, with large eyes and transparent hair, and with the ability to dress and look like humans, and to grow again once they get old.
Former US Air Force officer Bill Holden who had many UFO and ET experiences, including several encounters with alien beings and UFO craft demonstrations. He witnessed 2 Greys in jumpsuits, and a flying double-saucer UFO emerge from water without a splash. He reveals how relations between aliens and the US government are both on-going and extensive.
Former Canadian Defence Minister Paul Hellyer, A former defence minister has accused world leaders of concealing the presence of aliens. Paul Hellyer, who was a Canadian minister from 1963 to 1967, is now urging world powers to release what he believes to be hidden data on UFOs. ‘Much of the media won’t touch [the documents]’, he said during a keynote speech at the Disclosure Canada Tour at the University of Calgary.
There are MANY cases of other ET contacts which include;
Simon Parkes, Arizona Wilder, Whitley Strieber, Mark Richards, Maurizio Cavallo, Ernie Sears, Bonnie Meyer, Alec Newald, Jonathan Reed, James Casbolt, Kim Carlsberg, Douglas Taylor, Travis Walton and Stan Romanek are also worth investigating, not to mention those who are believed to have seen or worked on UFOs, such as Bob Lazar and U.S. Airforce Captain Robert Salas etc etc etc (probably missing a fair few!).
Researchers Bringing The Truth About ET Reality
There are now numerous credible researchers around the world who have spent their lives studying the ET phenomenon. Take for example Roger Leir, an expert on alien implants; Ann Eller, who worked with the father of UFO and Alien research, Dr. J. Allen Hynek, and who served as Hynek’s personal secretary; and Professor David Jacobs who has fascinating evidence of a disturbing ET agenda of building a hybrid human-alien race. Or, listen to Barbara Lamb, Stan Friedman, Bill Cooper, Mary Rodwell, Timothy Good, Steven Bassett, Steven Greer, Linda Moulton Howe or Philip Corso.
Another person of particular interest is the late Dr. Karla Turner, who investigated the ET abduction phenomenon for decades and collected massive testimonial evidence of the existence of grey and reptilian ETs. Many people have said that she was murdered because of the truth she told and the knowledge she knew! These are all brave people risking their life for the TRUTH!
We Have Been Helped
Here is a quote from Dr. Herman Oberth, a NASA Space Scientist, who said this in 1972. Not much more needs saying after this:
“Today, we cannot produce machines that fly the same as UFOs do. They are flying by means of artificial fields of Gravity. This would explain the sudden changes of directions. This hypothesis would also explain the piling-up of these discs into a Cylindrical or cigar shaped “Mothership” upon leaving the Earth. Because it is in this fashion, that only one field of gravity be required for all the flying saucers. We cannot take credit for our record advancement in certain scientific fields alone. We have been HELPED. And we have been helped by the people of other WORLDS.” Not all ETs are “bad”. Not all are “good”. There are countless species, and motivations within those species, for us to make many generalizations. There is a whole universe of hominoid beings out there waiting for us to end the planetary secrecy and take our place in the galactic community. However, it’s not going to happen until a critical mass can discern the truth, hiding in plain sight.”
U.I.P SUMMARY
One thing is for sure, not all ET Beings are bad and not all are good!(a bit like Human Beings!) It is clear that there are countless, possibly endless amount of species out there in the Infinite Universe, and I guess the different species have their very own motivations for us to make many generalizations.
Out there, in the vastness of ‘unknown’ there is an entire universe of hominoid beings waiting for us to end the planetary secrecy and take our place within the galactic community. But, and it is a big BUT, this is NOT going to happen until a significant mass of this planets population can decipher the truth, which hiding in plain view from us all.
One other thing, it is becoming clear by the sheer amount of UFO sightings being seen around the world (of course some will be hoaxes) that some of the ET’s are potentially trying to force their very own disclosure….Together as one we can force our own Disclosure!
I salute all of the brave Truth seekers out there and the people in the know who have helped to push for the Truth.
Extremely Hot and Incredibly Close: How Hot Jupiters Defy Theory
By Paul Sutter, Astrophysicist
An artist's impression showing a close-up of the extrasolar planet XO-1b passing in front of a Sun-like star 600 light-years from Earth. The Jupiter-sized planet is in a tight four-day orbit around the star.
Credit: NASA, ESA and G. Bacon (STScI)
Paul Sutteris a visiting scholar at The Ohio State University's Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics (CCAPP). Sutter is also host of the podcasts "Ask a Spaceman"and "RealSpace," and the YouTube series "Space in Your Face."
As usual, we thought we had it all figured out. See that gas giant over there in the outer solar system? It was born there. It will spend its whole life there, and it will die there. Sure it might wiggle around a bit every few hundred million years — who doesn't? — but, by and large, planets don't move.
Surprise: Planets move. And not just a little. They move a lot. All over the place. In fact, in the early days of a solar system's formation, planets are a little rambunctious: squirrely little toddlers jostling about underfoot. But it wasn't until we started observing planets in other solar systems ("extrasolar planets" or "exoplanets" for the astronomer on the move) that we really noticed this fact.
Hot Jupiters whipping around
And it wasn't just any type of exoplanet that kicked off this re-think; it was the hot Jupiters. Imagine: a planet more massive than the largest one in our solar system and 10 times warmer, a monstrous beast of hydrogen and other elements, complete with swirling bands of gas and a rich, dynamic atmosphere, orbiting closer its star than Mercury orbits the sun. In some solar systems, such a planet orbits so quickly that its year is shorter than the Earth's day. That means these worlds can whip around their parent stars in hours. The physics involved can reduce the most hardened scientist to tears.
When astronomers spotted the first hot Jupiter (51 Pegasi b, the first exoplanet to be found around a sunlike star, no less), the reaction was mostly, "Ha ha, mother nature, that's cute. You got us this time, but no more funny business, OK?"
But then another hot Jupiter was found. And another. Then half a dozen more. They went from goofy oddballs to … normalcy. For a while, it started to look like our own solar system was the weird one. Maybe they should just be called "regular Jupiters," and ours re-named a "cold Jupiter?"
In retrospect, it's not surprising that astronomers spotted these massive planets living so close to their parent stars. After all, our detection methods are most sensitive to exactly these scenarios.
One method is based on the motion of the parent star itself. Have you ever taunted a dog on a leash, running back and forth? The dog, frantically trying to chase you, runs until the leash stops it. You go the opposite direction, and so does the dog, until "thunk!" and the leash again reaches its limit.
In this really bad analogy, each planet is taunting its parent sun through gravity. During one part of the planet's year, the world sits at a certain position in the system. Gently, week by week, the planet tries to pull the star over to it, because that's how gravity works. But some time later, the planet finds itself on the opposite side of the system. "No, star, I meant come over here, not over there!"
Back and forth the star goes, sloshing around — just a tiny bit — it is huge compared to its planets, after all. But with precise-enough measurements, we can detect that wobble by a telltale red- and blue-shifting of the star's emitted light. [Direct Imaging: The Next Big Step in the Hunt for Exoplanets ]
A second powerful method — and nowadays, the method most commonly used to find new planets — is to simply look for distant eclipses. If we get the alignment just right, and stare at enough stars, every once in a while, a planet will cross the face of its parent, ever so slightly dimming the star. Bingo: a transit detection!
Both of those methods will more easily find a planet if it is big, producing a stronger pull from wiggling or a more significant dip in the brightness.
So these methods will first pick out the massive, close planets, because those will make the strongest, clearest, least-ambiguous signals. And with planets that have fast orbital speeds, you can get more signal bang for your observational buck.
That led to the initial worry: For a while, it seemed like every exoplanet was a hot Jupiter. Fortunately, as our detection methods improved and we could spot smaller exoplanets, we've learned the galaxy is a mellower place. There are plenty of hot Jupiters, but also plenty of regular Jupiters, and every other kind of planet you can imagine .
40,000-year-old bracelet made by extinct human species found
In what is quite an amazing discovery, scientists have confirmed that a bracelet found in Siberia is 40,000 years old. This makes it the oldest piece of jewelry ever discovered, and archeologists have been taken aback by the level of its sophistication.
The bracelet was discovered in a site called the Denisova Cave in Siberia, close to Russia’s border with China and Mongolia. It was found next to the bones of extinct animals, such as the wooly mammoth, and other artifacts dating back 125,000 years.
The cave is named after the Denisovan people — a mysterious species of hominins from the Homo genus, who are genetically different from both Homo sapiens and Neanderthals.
The Denisovan cave in Siberia Anatoly Derevyanko and Mikhail Shunkov, Vera Salnitskaya
We know that the Denisovans migrated out of Africa sometime after the first wave of Homo erectus, and well before us, Homo sapiens.
The Denisovans were unique in many ways, having branched away from other humanoid ancestors some 1 million years ago. Indeed, the recent discovery of a female Denisovan finger bone and various teeth shows that they had no morphological similarities to either Neanderthals or modern humans.
However, tens of thousands of years later, and prior to becoming extinct, they did coexist with us and the Neanderthals for a period, and skeletal remains of hybrids, and genetic studies confirm that they also mated with our forebears and the Neanderthals.
Strangely, however, DNA evidence also suggests that, at some point, the Denisovans must have interbred with an as yet unknown and undiscovered species of humans beings.
Skeletal remains show that the Denisovans were probably far more robust and powerful than modern humans, and were, until now, assumed to be a more primitive, archaic type of humans than us.
But, the discovery of the bracelet suggests this was far from true. Amazingly, the skill involved in making this adornment shows a level of technique at least 30,000 years ahead of its time.
Until now, scientists had believed that such skills had only evolved among humans in the Neolithic period, which began at about 10,000 BC. Indeed, originally, they believed that the bracelet had somehow become mixed up with materials dating from a later period.
However, experiments have now definitely ruled that out, and they confirm that it could not have been made by homo sapiens or Neanderthals. After 7 years of analysis, the scientists are confident that the piece was made 30,000 years before the beginning of the Stone Age.
General reconstruction of the view of the bracelet and compraison with the moders bracelet
Anatoly Derevyanko and Mikhail Shunkov, Anastasia Abdulmanova Located next to the Anuy River, about
The Daily Mail quotes the head of the Museum of History and Culture of the Peoples’ of Siberia and the Far East in the city of Novosibirsk, Dr Anatoly Derevyanko, who said:
“The skills of its creator were perfect. Initially we thought that it was made by Neanderthals or modern humans, but it turned out that the master was Denisovan.”
Mikhail Shunkov, deputy director of the the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography in Novosibirsk, part of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, suggested that the find indicates that the Denisovans were more advanced than Homo sapiens and Neanderthals.
What is incredible is that the craftsman who made the adornment, seems to have used something similar to a modern drill.
The Siberian Times quotes Dr Derevyanko, who wrote in the Russian magazine, Science First Hand, that when they studied the diameters of the bracelet, they found that the rotational speed of the drill must have been quite high, and with minimal fluctuations.
“The ancient master” he said, “was skilled in techniques previously considered not characteristic for the Palaeolithic era, such as easel speed drilling, boring tool type rasp, grinding and polishing with a leather and skins of varying degrees of tanning.”
Drilling marks on Denisovan bracelet
Anatoly Derevyanko and Mikhail Shunkov, Vera Salnitskaya
Held in place by what they believe was a leather strap, the bracelet itself was made from a type of stone called chlorite, which could only have been imported from some 200km (125 miles) away.
The bracelet was very delicate and was probably worn at special occasions by some important person, such as a Denisovan princess.
Shunk explains;
“All jewellery had a magical meaning for ancient people. Bracelets and neck adornments were to protect people from evil spirits, for instance.”
“But this item, given the complicated technology and “imported” material, obviously belonged to some high ranking person of that society.”
Commenting on its beauty, Anatoly Derevyanko added;
“The bracelet is stunning. In bright sunlight it reflects the sun rays, at night by the fire it casts a deep shade of green.”
The archeologists are reported to have also found a ring made of marble, but they have not yet disclosed any findings about it.
OVNIs : ODH Docs Saison 2 - 2014-2015-2016 - MAJ Ep.
ODH Docs Saison 2 - 2014-2015-2016 vous est présentée et est réalisée par Gilles Thomas.
Il s'agit de reportages courts permettant de revenir sur les observations historiques d'OVNIs dans les régions visitées, avec quelques reconstitutions graphiques et de visiter. en même temps, beaucoup de lieux d'observations et d'admirer souvent le beau paysage français au passage. Beaucoup de cas peu connus du public néophyte actuel bien sûr puisqu'on remonte jusqu'aux années 50 pour certaines observations. Les quelques cas de Rencontres Rapprochées de différents types sont mentionnés. Très bien réalisé et intéressant.
Tour de France des Ovni 2014 :
#01. Ovnis dans les Hautes-Pyrénées avec la participation de Jacques Mirtain, ufologue depuis 50 ans qui nous parle de quelques cas locaux très intéressants.
#02. Ovnis dans les Hautes-Pyrénées - suite
#03. Ovnis dans les Landes
#04. OVNIs en Gironde
#05. Ovnis en Charente-maritime
#06. Ovnis en Charente
#07.Ovnis en Vendée - Tour de France des OVNI 2015
#08. Ovnis dans les Deux-Sèvres avec la participation de Joël Mesnard.
#09. Ovnis dans le Morbihan avec la participation de Joël Mesnard.
VIDEOHoewel de zon niet altijd zichtbaar is, schijnt ze toch iedere dag. De NASA-ruimtesonde Solar Dynamics Observatory werpt sinds 2010 non-stop haar licht op de ster. De visuele bevindingen van vorig jaar goot de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie in een video.
Het resultaat is een schitterende timelapse van minder dan zeven minuten van één jaar zon. Het filmpje werd eerder deze maand door de NASA op YouTube geplaatst. De beelden tonen het bolvormige hemellichaam in extreem ultraviolet licht, een golflengte die het menselijk oog normaal niet kan zien. Het biedt aardbewoners de kans om onder meer gaswolken, explosies van gemagnetiseerd plasma en zonnevlammen van dichtbij te bewonderen.
NASA werkt aan nieuw aandrijfsysteem dat ons in 3 dagen naar Mars kan brengen
Met de huidige aandrijfsystemen zou het zo’n zes maanden duren om de planeet Mars te bereiken. De NASA werkt nu aan een nieuwe technologie die ruimteschepen in staat stelt om de rode planeet in minder dan 72 uur te bereiken.
De technologie staat bekend als fotonische voortstuwing, oftewel voortstuwing door middel van lichtstralen. Het systeem bestaat uit lasers die een reusachtig zeil voortstuwen. In plaats van fotonen van de zon worden lasers op aarde gebruikt, meldt ScienceAlert.
Dromen
“Er is geen reden te bedenken waarom we dit niet zouden kunnen doen,” zei Philip Lubin van de Universiteit van Californië in Santa Barbara in een video over het aandrijfsysteem.
“We moeten onze strategie radicaal veranderen, of onze droom de sterren te bereiken opgeven, of wachten op technologie die niet bestaat,” schrijft hij in een paper over de technologie. “Hoewel we allemaal dromen van ruimtevluchten naar de sterren, zijn we daar nog niet toe in staat en is het ook onduidelijk welk pad we moeten kiezen.”
Lubin en zijn collega’s hebben van de NASA een subsidie gekregen om aan te tonen dat het systeem werkt. Hij droomt er al van om ruimtesondes op een dag naar de rand van ons zonnestelsel te sturen.
Bewoonbare exoplaneten
“We kunnen een ruimtetuig van 100 kilo in slechts een paar dagen naar Mars sturen,” zei hij. “Een spaceshuttle zou er ongeveer een maand over doen.”
“Binnen een afstand van 25 lichtjaar van de aarde staan aardig wat bewoonbare exoplaneten,” besloot hij. “Er zijn veel bestemmingen waar we uit kunnen kiezen. De dichtstbijzijnde is Alpha Centauri, die op zo’n vier lichtjaar staat.”
Bekijk ook onderstaande video over de nieuwe technologie:
Het is enige tijd stil geweest voor wat betreft de vreemde en onverklaarbare geluiden boven Nederland, maar nu is het terug.
Afgelopen weekend was het raak boven Amsterdam en mensen vragen zich vertwijfeld af wat voor geluid dit kan zijn.
Via een lezer (dank!) kregen wij onderstaand videobestand opgestuurd, met daarop een wel heel vreemd geluid.
Hij schrijft onder ander het volgende:
Het is in Amsterdam Noord gebeurd, vlak bij het vernieuwde winkelcentrum Waterlandplein.
Zaterdag rond 10:00 uur gebeurde het toen had ik nog niks gefilmd.
Een uurtje later begon het weer.
Misschien is er een verklaring voor het geluid op de video en mocht iemand het weten dan vernemen we het graag.
Is er geen verklaring voor te vinden dan kan het onderdeel vormen van de vele vreemde geluiden die wereldwijd worden waargenomen en die volgens ons te maken hebben met de nadering van het mini zonnestelsel Nibiru, waarover we eerder schreven.
Misschien is er nog een andere aanwijzing.
Want wij ontvingen nog een email van iemand (dank!) die op dezelfde plek, alleen een dag later op zondagmorgen, ook een ervaring had:
Ik hoorde om 10:00 keiharde geluiden in de lucht. Ik kwam laat thuis en had weinig geslapen dus ik ging met moeite kijken wat dat geluid was.
Het leek het uit de lucht te komen.
Ik ging weer naar bed ondanks dat geluid bleef. Gedurende 10 minuten bleef het een hoge toon houden alsof er een trein in de lucht reed.
Uur later kwam het weer terug en toen was ik al een beetje wakker en pakte ik me telefoon en liep ik naar de galerij en begon te filmen.
Voordat ik me telefoon had gepakt zag ik een zilveren vierkant met zwarte puntjes op het object, Het was ongeveer 100 bij 100 meter en was na een paar seconden weer weg.
Het was zondag om 10:00 uur en om 11:00 uur bij Waterlandplein omgeving. Ik heb veel mensen gesproken die het ook hebben gehoord die het ook niet konden plaatsen.
Kortom, voorlopig lijkt er sprake van mysterieuze gebeurtenissen in Amsterdam Noord.
Many people think that to see is to believe, and they find it hard to believe in something that they have never seen before. Millions of people have reported UFO sightings for decades now. Despite the numerous sightings, the phenomenon is still unexamined. What’s more, the media have held the claimers to ridicule. Reports go back as early as 1878, and their number increased, as a growing evidence of the existence of extra-terrestrial life. An image took by a space watcher shows a structured spacecraft in Europe, which is believed to be the 6th largest moon. Space watchers thought that the object was an indication of the existence of alien in the other planet.
The captured photo posted by Secure Team reveals the images on a camera embedded in a 7D-300mm telescopic lens on a tripod. The video shows an image by British man Louis Read sent to the UFO watchers. Louis Read was so amazed at his findings that he sent it to request for a second opinion. According to the film, the extraterrestrial vessel comes close to Jupiter’s moon Europa, but has never been seen until today. People increased the exposure after seeing the unique site. They believed that such object could be a giant alien or just a fleet of strange objects. The mere fact that Jupiter is considered to be made up of gas and ice, Secure Team is very much convinced that extraterrestrial beings exist on Jupiter. What’s more is the ‘under water’ term that plays as a host of the different life forms.
NASA is planning to send a probe out there by traveling as far as Jupiter in their quest for information about the happenings in the Solar System. Currently, they are conducting a series of experiments on Mars.
Watch Mysterious Space Object Seen Hovering Above Earth
An object seems to trail the International Space Station in a video that emerges from Russia. The baffling footage appears to show a piece of debris or spacecraft following the station last month as it orbited the Earth. It was allegedly shot on the ISS cameras while the satellite waited for a supply delivery.
Many have thought the object was a UFO, but others stay skeptical about the video’s authenticity, and the explanation that was given for it.
Some suggested that the short video didn’t have the same quality of the footage from the cameras on the ISS.
Furthermore, the object’s rotation and motion don’t look like an object in orbit. Because of this observation, some suggest the object in the clip is a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, used to transport cosmonauts into space.
Meanwhile, the video quickly went viral, and viewers hotly debated it online. Some think it is a companion ship.
One viewer commented that the debris from the ISS roughly gets the same speed as the object in the video. Most likely, a thermal insulation board, according to the viewer.
Just a few days back, the Cygnus cargo vessel was launched back into space filled with garbage it accumulated during its time with the space station. Once it reached a safe distance from the ISS, its engines were programmed to fire twice, sending it into Earth’s atmosphere. During re-entry, it will burn up in the atmosphere.
When we normally see a Stacy Brown Jr. video, he’s dressed all in camo and out in the swamps, criticizing how other bigfoot researchers do nothing. Now he’s changed the name of his channel to Paranormal Weekly, has traded in his camo for a dress shirt and tie, and is narrating a tale about a UFO abduction case. Has the one time winner of Bigfoot Bounty hung it all up for his own X-Files themed youtube show?
MoD UFO FAILURE LEAVES AIRSPACE OPENU.K. Airspace - Still Open to Unidentified Attack?
By Pat Regan
(Copyright 2016, Pat Rega – All Rights Resrved)
MoD: in 2009 they closed their defensive UFO hotline, meaning lots of potential threats to our airspace failed to ever be properly analysed and recorded.
Nick Pope stated at that time:
“From the Fifties to the present day, MoD received around 12,000 UFO reports. While most were misidentifications of ordinary objects and phenomena, around 5% remained unexplained.”
The following ‘North West UFO Research’ (a UFO monitoring focal pointy that I previously set up) data will explain that situation, for anyone who missed story in 2009.
This is how it went…Shock in the UFO community as the MoD’s UFO investigation service shuts down. North West UFO Research (NWUR) update
Reports filtered into the press on December 4th 2009
Information concerning how to report a UFO sighting to the MoD has recently been compromised with the shutdown of the MoD UFO facility.
This move is the result of an internal re-organisation within the Ministry of Defence and there will be no alteration to existing MoD policy relating to UFOs explaining that the Ministry of Defence has stopped investigating reported sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) in the UK. A telephone number and email address which allowed the public to report sightings for examination was closed on 1st December after the MoD decided the service was an “inappropriate use of defence resources.”
The closure of this facility was revealed in a Freedom of Information request released via the MoD website. The report explained that the MoD had dealt with more than 12,000 reports since it launched the reporting service in 1950; including 135 last year. The service had cost approximately £50,000 a year to operate and was based at RAF Command in High Wycombe.
In an announcement, the MoD stated:
”The MoD has no opinion on the existence or otherwise of extra-terrestrial life.”
“However, in over fifty years, no UFO report has revealed any evidence of a potential threat to the United Kingdom.”
”The MoD has no specific capability for identifying the nature of such sightings. “
“There is no defence benefit in such investigation and it would be an inappropriate use of defence resources. Furthermore, responding to reported UFO sightings diverts MoD resources from tasks that are relevant to defence. “
“Accordingly, and in order to make best use of defence resources, we have decided that from the 1 December 2009 the dedicated UFO hotline answer-phone service and e-mail address will be withdrawn. MoD will no longer respond to reported UFO sightings or investigate them.”
They however added that the ongoing programme to release departmental files on UFO matters to the National Archive will carry on.
Of course that will also eventually dry up because the MoD are not we presume logging any more data of this issue.
Pat Regan of NWUR addresses the issue below:
I was not very surprised when I heard this astonishing news as my own experience with the MoD has been one of them showing indifference. They were quite content to largely ignore my requests to investigate UFOs pictured flying close to RAF warplanes, consequently what more can I say? This agency is in existence to protect our sovereign air space and this latest revelation appears to leave the back door wide open for any form of unknown attack on the UK. The MoD’s position therefore seems to be that if an object is unidentified then they are not really interested. The MoD says: “There is no defence benefit in such investigation and it would be an inappropriate use of defence resources.” This is absolute nonsense! Can anyone believe such authoritarian apathy is these times of terrorist incursion?
Today, we are hearing of more unexplained sighting of mystery objects in our skies than ever before yet the MoD are washing their hands of the issue. This action, or perhaps I should say “none –action,” is simply too bizarre for words! I asked Nick Pope what he thought about the closure, he stated: “Having worked on the UFO project from 1991 to 1994 I am sorry to see MoD disengage in this way. I believe that where evidence suggests that UK airspace has been penetrated by an unidentified object, this must automatically be of defence interest and should be investigated properly. Indeed, I am sure that sightings from pilots and uncorrelated targets tracked on radar will continue to be looked at, albeit outside of a formally constituted UFO project.”
Nick continued:
“From the Fifties to the present day, MoD received around 12,000 UFO reports. While most were misidentifications of ordinary objects and phenomena, around 5% remained unexplained.
Pat Regan added:
“Apparently the MoD’s UFO facility is being axed ”to save money. This is absurd as the staff members who have worked herein will most likely just be reassigned to other duties within the department. This closure therefore is false economy, a subterfuge to conceal authoritarian lethargy toward a vital issue and it will possibly be only a question of time until mounting public pressure demands that the MoD reopen this unique facility. We need to know what is flying though our skies – not ignoring the question.”
KEEP your eyes on the skies over South Devon – a UFO has been spotted. The unidentified flying saucer shape was spotted over Newton Abbot in January, and has been described as moving through the skies before vanishing from view. National newspapers reported that John, from Devon, took thesephotographs of the the shape which had a domed top hovering in the sky.
John has shared his pictureonline, and described his close encounter with the craft to the Daily Star. He told them: “I had an incredible sighting on the 19th of January 2016 of a flying saucer. I got a very good look at this alien craft and all I can say is WOW! “I was sky-watching when I noticed a black object far off in the distance in the direction I was looking.
“The flying saucer turned back in the direction from where it had come from and then disappeared off into the distance and out of sight. “The black object got bigger as it got closer. I could clearly see that the object was in fact a flying saucer and I could see a dome on the top of the saucer.” John spotted the UFO on January 19 at 1.10pm, and says he is certain the shape was an alien craft.
"Portals appear in many books, movies and video games. Some of them connect distant places, others travel back or forward in time, and the most powerful ones bridge into different dimensions. Most people suppose these gateways exist only in the realm of mysticism or science fiction, but there are some who strongly believe that portals have been opened up in ancient times and, quite possibly, even in the present day.
According to two National Security US Informants, the Department of Defense developed time travel technology over 40 years ago. As early as 1967, the US government was using a fully operational time travel facility built on Tesla-based quantum access. This technology has been used to keep the construction of military installations secret, as well as provide political and economic advantages by way of knowing what the future holds. Some say the CIA confiscated Tesla’s papers on teleportation shortly after his death.
One of these two National Informants, Michael Relfe, is a former member of the US armed forces who claimed he was a member of a top-secret US operation. He was recruited in 1976 and spent the next 20 years helping maintain and expand one of the two or more US colonies on Mars. Those bases served as strategic research points and defense objectives, and in order to preserve their secrecy, they were built in the future.
Relfe said that after serving 20 years on the Mars colony as part of their permanent team, he was age-reversed and sent back in time. He claimed that this was the usual procedure and that staff members would have certain memories blocked or erased before being discharged.
Dr. Andrew D. Basiago was a participant in DARPA’s Project Pegasus (1968-1972) that focused on time travel in the time-space hologram. He claimed that the CIA was actively training groups of gifted American schoolchildren to become the first generation of time-explorers."
"Children were better suited for this mission for several disturbing reasons. First of all, they were considered ideal candidates due to their clear minds and lack of impressions or experience. The US government was interested in the effects of time travel over young bodies and minds. The adult volunteers usually became insane after several journeys. Fortunately, naive children had little former experience and beliefs that could drive them mad.
Another use for quantum technology was found in political control. According to Dr. Basiago, future persons of interest would be notified early about the roles they were to play in the future. He said that in the early 1970’s in Albuquerque, New Mexico he was present at a lunch at which George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush were informed of their future presidencies.
Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton were also paid visits and in 1982, President Obama was rumored to be approached while still a student at UCLA. To further this claim, there are many first witness accounts from people who attended college with Obama that can attest that he would often get drunk at parties and then claim that he would be the future President of The United States. Was this certainty not based on predisposed knowledge?
Basiago claims that in 1971 he viewed images from the attack on the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001. They had been obtained from the future and brought back for analysis. This implies that the US government knew about 9/11 three decades in advance.
According to the informants and those who support them, this technology is held secret despite being funded by the public. It is also not the first time these missions have been kept declassified because of their immense potential. They say that the people deserve to know what is really going on, the truth about space exploration and the presence of humans on other planets. Teleportation could solve transportation problems worldwide by moving people and goods instantly. It would also immediately help to destroy the current tyrannical power pyramid that is in place.
If they’re right, we’re missing out on some revolutionary insight. To what extent can the Government manipulate our past, present and future lives? "
Les astronautes d'Apollo 10 ont entendu une musique étrange derrière la lune
L'équipage d'Apollo 10 le 3 avril 1969 au Centre spatial Kennedy: de gauche à droite Eugene Cernan, pilote du module lunaire, le commandant Thomas Stafford, et John Young, pilote du module de commande (AFP/)
La Nasa a rendu public l'enregistrement d'"une musique bizarre" entendue par l'équipage d'Apollo 10 en mai 1969 lors de leur survol de la face cachée de la Lune sans aucun contact radio avec la Terre. Les trois astronautes, Thomas Stafford, le commandant, John Young, pilote du module de commande et Eugene Cernan, pilote du module lunaire, effectuaient le vol de répétition générale avant le premier alunissage le 21 juillet 1969 lors de la mission Apollo 11, qui fit de Neil Armstrong le premier homme à poser le pied sur le sol lunaire. Le cas de ces sifflements a été présenté dimanche soir sur la chaîne câblée Discovery dans le cadre de sa série intitulée "Les dossiers inexpliqués de la Nasa". Ces sons ont duré quasiment une heure. Ils ont été enregistrés et transmis au centre de contrôle à Houston (Texas, sud des Etats-Unis) où ils ont été transcrits et archivés. La bande sonore a refait surface en 2008 et pu être entendue par le public seulement maintenant. "Vous entendez ça? ce sifflement...", dit Eugen Cernan sur l'enregistrement. "C'est vraiment une musique bizarre", poursuit-il alors que leur vaisseau survole la face cachée de la Lune à 1.500 mètres d'altitude, coupé de tout contact radio avec la Terre. Les trois astronautes ont jugé le phénomène tellement étrange qu'ils ont débattu du fait de savoir s'ils devaient ou pas le signaler au centre de contrôle à leur supérieurs, de crainte de ne pas être pris au sérieux et de compromettre leurs chances d'effectuer de futurs vols, selon l'émission de Discovery. Aussi bizarres que puissent avoir été ces sons, ils n'ont pas une origine extra-terrestre, insiste la Nasa. Un ingénieur de l'agence spatiale interviewé dans le cadre de cette émission a expliqué que "les radios dans les deux vaisseaux, le module lunaire et le module de commandement, (qui étaient alors attachés, Ndlr) créaient des interférences entre elles". Cette explication est mise en doute par l'astronaute Al Worden, commandant du module de commande de la mission Apollo 15. Intervenant dans cette même émission, il déclare que la "logique me dit que si quelque chose a été enregistré là bas, il devait y avoir quelque chose". John Young a effectué un autre vol vers la Lune dont il a pu fouler le sol en tant que commandant de la mission Apollo 16. Eugene Cernan, commandant d'Apollo 17, la dernière mission lunaire, a éte le dernier homme à marcher sur la lune. Douze personnes au total ont marché sur la lune.
Russia’s Ballistic Missiles Versus Asteroid Apophis
NASA
NASA
IN BRIEF
Russian scientists are preparing Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles against asteroid Apophis, which is expected to come close to Earth in the coming decades.
In what sounds like an elevator pitch for an Armageddon sequel, Russian scientists announced that they’ve developed intercontinental ballistic missiles that aim to destroy asteroid Apophis, which is going to swing by Earth in 2036.
MEET APOPHIS
Also referred to as 99942 Apophis,it measures 210-330 meters (690-1080 feet) in diameter.According to a Slate article by astronomer Phil Plait an encounter with Earth would mean not so fun times for our planet; “it would release the energy equivalent to more than 1 billion tons of TNT exploding, at least 20 times more than the largest nuke ever detonated!”
However, fortunately, it is going to travel on by without impact.
NASA has predicted two instances of the asteroid approaching the Earth – first in April 13, 2029 (Friday the 13th!…if you are the superstitious type) and another in 2036.
The 2029 approach calculates Apophis to have a 2.7% chance of impacting Earth and is estimated to come no closer 29,470 km (18,300 miles). In fact, to anyone looking up at the sky that night, the asteroid will appear as “a moderately bright point of light moving rapidly across the sky.”
The 2036 approach however, is what’s got doomsayers into overdrive, and all because the paper initially stated that “a small estimated chance of impact (less than 1 in 45,000 using standard dynamical models) remained for April 13, 2036.”
“With the new data provided by the Magdalena Ridge [New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology] and the Pan-STARRS [Univ. of Hawaii] optical observatories, along with very recent data provided by the Goldstone Solar System Radar, we have effectively ruled out the possibility of an Earth impact by Apophis in 2036,” said Don Yeomans, manager of NASA’s Near-Earth Object Program Office at JPL. “The impact odds as they stand now are less than one in a million, which makes us comfortable saying we can effectively rule out an Earth impact in 2036. Our interest in asteroid Apophis will essentially be for its scientific interest for the foreseeable future.”
Credit: Getty Images / HLN/Sonia Kose
SO, WHY DOES RUSSIA WANT TO BLOW IT UP?
According to lead researcher, Sabit Saitgarayev of the Makeyev Rocket Design Bureau, the upgraded intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) are aimed stopping asteroids 20-50 meters in size. Which is similar to the one that exploded in the skies of Chelyabinsk in 2013 and injured more than 1,000 people.
Saitgarayev emphasized the speed at which the upgraded intercontinental ballistic missiles can be used as compared to most rockets. He says that because most rockets take about 10 days to fuel, it’s ineffective against asteroids that are detected several hours before coming close to the Earth.
Because of Russia’s in-your-face-nuke-em-asteroids approach, not everybody is thrilled with this announcement. Astrophysics professor Henry Melosh of Purdue University, who worked on NASA’s Deep Impact mission, warned that the project is “misguided and potentially dangerous.”
While others are saying that if approved, Russia would be in violation of the Outer Space Treaty of 1967, which explicitly forbids “placing nuclear weapons or any other weapons of mass destruction in orbit of Earth, installing them on the Moon or any other celestial body, or to otherwise station them in outer space.”
Russia both signed and ratified this treaty along with 104 other parties around the world including China, North Korea, and the United States.
Alex Kipman just showed off Microsoft's augmented reality tech at the TED 2016, and it's pretty spectacular.
With Microsoft HoloLens creator Alex Kipman’s recent TED talk in Vancouver, Coachella’s famous Tupac hologram now has some serious competition.
By using the headset’s spatial mapping technology, Kipman showed the HoloLens’ “mixed reality” capabilities in real-time. In his demo, he was able to interact with and modify the holograms overlaid on the TED stage, including a trip to the Moon, a magical virtual forest (complete with fairies and elves), and a quick jaunt to Mars (based on actual Curiosity rover data).
The highlight of Kipman’s presentation was when he made NASA’s Jeff Norris “teleport”onto the TED stage, calling it the first real-life holographic teleportation. “I’m actually in three places. I’m standing in a room across the street while I’m standing on the stage with your while I’m standing on mars a hundred million miles away,” says Norris.
Credit: TED Vancouver 2016
HOLOLENS IN SPACE
This is not the HoloLens’ first foray into space, as it’s also working with NASA in its Sidekick Project.
The project currently has two modes, Remote Expert Mode and Procedure Mode. The first allows a ground operator to see what a crew member sees and draw annotations in the environment to coach them through a task, while the latter augments standalone procedures with animated holographic illustrations.
HoloLens’ technology has the potential to be an invaluable and necessary resource for space organizations, especially for deep space missions where communication delays complicate difficult operations.
“HoloLens and other virtual and mixed reality devices are cutting edge technologies that could help drive future exploration and provide new capabilities to the men and women conducting critical science on the International Space Station,” said Sam Scimemi, director of the ISS program at NASA Headquarters in Washington. “This new technology could also empower future explorers requiring greater autonomy on the journey to Mars.”
Although developer kits are now available at $3,000 a pop, it looks like it would still take a while before the HoloLens is made available to consumers. As Kipman says in an interview with Re/Code, “If a consumer bought it today, they would have 12 things to do with it,” Kipman said. “And they would say ‘Cool, I bought a $3,000 product that I can do 12 things with and now it is collecting dust.’”
First Analysis of a Super-Earth’s Atmosphere Reveals Scorching Wasteland
This artist’s concept shows the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope in orbit around the Earth.
(credit: ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser))
IN BRIEF
Astronomers have detected an atmosphere of a “super-Earth” and analyzed it for the first time. They found that it’s mostly hydrogen and helium, and rather inhospitable.
DETECTING AN ATMOSPHERE
Astronomers have detected and analyzed the atmosphere of a “super-Earth” exoplanet for the first time. And as it turns out, this “super-Earth” isn’t so super when it comes to being habitable.
Using data gathered by the Hubble Space Telescope and new analysis techniques, the scientists found that exoplanet 55 Cancri e has a dry atmosphere without any indications of the presence of water vapor. Indeed, they found that it’s mostly hydrogen and helium in composition.
But that’s not all that makes it hostile to life as we know it. 55 Cancri e also has a mass of eight Earths.
The results of their study will be published in the Astrophysical Journal and is also present in an open-source format on arXiv.
A NOTABLE STEP IN ASTRONOMY
“This is a very exciting result because it’s the first time that we have been able to find the spectral fingerprints that show the gases present in the atmosphere of a super-Earth,”explains Angelos Tsiaras, a PhD student who developed the analysis technique along with his colleagues Ingo Waldmann and Marco Rocchetto. “The observations of 55 Cancri e’s atmosphere suggest that the planet has managed to cling on to a significant amount of hydrogen and helium from the nebula from which it originally formed.”
As an aside, super-Earths like 55 Cancri e are believed to be the most common type of planet in our galaxy. They are named ‘super-Earth’ because they have a mass far greater than that of the Earth but are still much smaller than the gas giants in the Solar System.
FIGURING OUT THE DETAILS OF A SUPER-EARTH
55 Cancri e is unusual in the fact that it orbits very close to its parent star. A year on the exoplanet lasts for only 18 hours and temperatures on the surface are estimated to reach around 2000 degrees Celsius (3632ºF). Due to the exoplanet orbiting its bright parent star at such a small distance, the team was able to use new analysis techniques to extract information about the planet during its transits in front of the host star.
“This result gives a first insight into the atmosphere of a super-Earth. We now have clues as to what the planet is currently like and how it might have formed and evolved, and this has important implications for 55 Cancri e and other super-Earths,” said Giovanna Tinetti who is also part of the team.
Interestingly, the data also seems to indicate the presence of hydrogen cyanide, an indicator for carbon-rich atmospheres. “Such an amount of hydrogen cyanide would indicate an atmosphere with a very high ratio of carbon to oxygen,” notes Olivia Venot who developed an atmospheric chemical model of 55 Cancri e.
When Rainer "Rai" Weiss and colleagues first proposed an audacious experiment to detect ripples in space-time, called gravitational waves, in the late 1970s, they knew the whole endeavor was a long shot. The waves the researchers sought would pull and stretch their detector by mere billionths of a billionth of a meter — a scarcely believable signal to try to extract from nature.
Now, four decades later, millions of people worldwide have read about the historic detection of gravitational waves as the result of Weiss and his fellow scientists' efforts: the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). The revolutionary gravitational wave findings have thrown open the door to a whole new way of studying the universe's most extreme events and its most massive objects.
At the U.S. National Science Foundation's LIGO announcement in Washington, D.C. last week, Weiss called it "a miracle" that the equations first predicting gravitational waves — which Albert Einstein wrote a century ago — work so well in describing the black hole system LIGO found. "It is just amazing," he said, adding that he'd "love to be able to see Einstein's face right now" when the physicist's name came up in a recent Kavli Foundation roundtable.
Below is a complete transcript of that roundtable, with Weiss joined by two other LIGO researchers, all members of MIT's Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research. Nergis Mavalvala has focused on developing LIGO's precision instruments (and has become a celebrity scientist in her birthplace of Pakistan since the discovery was announced). Matthew Evans has worked on the modeling and control of large interferometers including LIGO.
Below, read their far-ranging conversation about the ramifications of LIGO's discovery and what more is in store in the dawning era of gravitational wave astronomy. The following is an edited transcript of the roundtable discussion. The participants have been provided the opportunity to amend or edit their remarks.
The Kavli Foundation:What does it feel like to have made this discovery? Rai, because you're one of LIGO's creators and someone who has pondered how to detect theses waves since the 1970s, let's start with you.
Rai Weiss: You're not going to like my answer — I feel like a monkey just jumped off my back! But the monkey's not gone yet, he's still walking along here on the sidewalk. We've got more to do. At least some of the guilty feelings that might have come from having dragged all these people along for decades hunting gravitational waves and maybe ruined their careers isn't happening. So I am very pleased.
Matthew Evans: If Rai had dragged us all toward our doom, it certainly would have been his fault. [Laughter] I hope he recognizes that he didn't.
Nergis Mavalvala: It's been a real joyride for decades and this is the pinnacle. It's been amazing to be involved in the science and technology of this effort regardless, and this discovery just makes it all really worthwhile. I don't think any of us ever feared we were being dragged to our doom. [Laughter] We were just on this great joyride where we didn't know where we might end up.
From left to right, Rainer Weiss, Matthew Evans and Nergis Mavalvala
TKF: This discovery of gravitational waves has been a long time in the making and required a lot of patience. Were you all actually surprised, then, at how quickly the detection was made after Advanced LIGO began operating back in September?
Mavalvala: Yes.
Evans: Very pleasantly surprised.
Weiss: It's amazing. The signal is bigger than we ever imagined it would be.
Mavalvala: We had thought the first signal would be some little small thing poking up out of the noise and we'd have to work really hard to understand what it was. But in fact, the signal we got is a very clean and beautiful event. It tells us that the binary black holes were located about 1.5 billion light years away. They whirled around each other at nearly the speed of light before a collision that was so powerful, it converted approximately three times the mass of the Sun into gravitational wave energy — in just a few tenths of a second!
TKF: Two years ago, the BICEP2 Antarctic telescope project announced evidence for the signature of gravitational waves in light from 380,000 years after the Big Bang. But that major result came into question in early 2015 when other data suggested cosmic dust is a likelier source of the signature. Do you have any concerns about these LIGO findings?
Evans: I don't have any concerns about that. I've gone through the instruments from one end to the other and I couldn't find anything that might have gone wrong. But the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, which is the umbrella organization for all the international institutions and scientists involved in this, is very well aware of the history. So the collaboration as a whole has been extremely careful to make sure this discovery is solid.
Weiss: The signal is so pretty, many of us worried at the time that it was something done maliciously. Matt and others crucially established that the signal is unlikely to have been generated by a hacker and much more likely by nature.
Mavalvala: The other possibility was that the instruments were misbehaving, but we've gone through a very, very detailed study and eliminated that as a possibility.
Weiss: There's one other piece of evidence — LIGO has detected more than one of these gravitational wave signals. That to me is a very important piece of the whole thing. Nature seems to behave as we would have expected, which is that it has produced not only a very powerful gravitational wave source like what we have detected and are talking about now, but also a not-so-powerful one of the same kind.
Evans: Another thing really important to say in contrast to previously declared discoveries of gravitational waves is that we have multiple detectors running simultaneously which detected the same signal. At each site, we have literally thousands of auxiliary channels and sensors looking for any sort of external disturbance and everything checks out.
TKF: What do you think are the biggest ramifications of this discovery?
Weiss: For many of us, this is the signal that we wanted to see from the beginning of this whole quest. We wanted to see gravitation à la Einstein and his theory of general relativity and which cannot be explained by any Newtonian mechanisms. The history of general relativity as a science is actually rather dismal. It was mostly theoretical work for many, many years. Then there was a renaissance in the 1960s when people began to realize that maybe the technology had changed enough that you could start doing experiments to test Einstein's theories. But then physicists ran into this really horrible problem that all the things that they could test were these infinitesimal effects. The bending of light, for example, is a pipsqueak effect. Or the slowing down of clocks in the gravitational field.
Now all of sudden with LIGO, we're dealing with a regime where Einstein's equations had never been applied before. With these colliding black holes , general relativity gives you the right answer, which is miraculous. That is the reason why this is such a big deal. Einstein never expected this kind of test of his theories to happen this way because the effects we're looking for are so vanishingly small. I keep telling people I'd love to be able to see Einstein's face right now!
Mavalvala: Another thing that's really remarkable is our ability to observe a binary black hole system with LIGO that we could not have observed with light. We could point the best telescopes, sensitive to more or less any electromagnetic wavelength of light, at this system and probably see nothing. We cannot observe this system with any of the other fundamental forces of nature. It has to be gravity.
If the signal LIGO had detected had been, say, neutron stars colliding and not black holes, we would have had no complaints, but there's probably a very good chance you could see neutron star mergers with other, conventional observational tools relying on light. In fact, we believe that certain classes of gamma ray bursts are just that. So what we have here in the findings we're announcing today is very important, in my opinion, because it's a completely dark-to-light system.
Evans: To me, this detection means that the stars are no longer silent. The frequencies of gravitational waves that LIGO is designed to detect are actually in the human audible range. So when we're working on LIGO, we often take its output and put it on a speaker and just listen to it. For this binary black hole system, it made a distinctive, rising "whoooop!" sound. It's not that we just look up and see anymore, like we always have — we actually can listen to the universe now. It's a whole new sense, and humanity did not have this sense until LIGO was built.
Weiss: We often whistled to demonstrate what we thought these smashing black holes might sound like, and it turns out if you play the piano or a keyboard, you can also make a similar sound. Do you know what a glissando is? It's when you run your fingers very quickly across the keys. If you started at the bottom of a keyboard and went all the way to the middle C and then hold that note for a little bit — that's what this black hole signal happened to be.
TKF: It's remarkable that the pattern or "sound" of gravitational waves detected by LIGO can reveal intricate details about the waves' sources. For instance, LIGO's data indicate that each black hole in this collapsing binary system had a mass of about 30 Suns. Until now, we've only known about much smaller black holes or supermassive black holes with masses of millions or billions of Suns. How will LIGO help us understand the origin of these never-before-seen, mid-size black holes?
Evans: Presumably, the existence of these 30 solar-mass black holes — and now after their collision, a nearly 60-solar mass black hole — will tell us something about what we call Population III stars. These are the earliest stars in the universe and are made almost entirely out of hydrogen. They are very massive and one of the plausible sources we've suspected for collapsing into these kinds of black holes.
Weiss: Another idea is that these black holes are made in places where there is a high density of many millions of stars, for example in globular clusters. You can maybe get stars to stick together there and collect and ultimately make a big black hole. There were papers even before our discovery that were beginning to hint that this is the more likely way to get these objects. Now that our findings are out, you watch — in the next year or two, there are going to be probably hundreds of papers about the origin of the black holes we're talking about. It's going to be the wave of the future.
Evans: The amazing thing at LIGO is that gravitational waves carry a tremendous amount of information about their source. As we get more and more of these detections, we'll even be able to tell how fast the black holes in these binary systems are spinning and if they are spinning in a way that's aligned. That data will let us decide whether these black holes came from a globular cluster or as a result of primeval Population III stars.
An artist's conception of two black holes merging, much like the one that produced the first detected gravitational waves.
Credit: P. Marenfeld/NOAO/AURA/NSF)
TKF: Turning our conversation to the LIGO observatories themselves — what technological advances did the black hole binary system discovery hinge on? Nergis, you were very involved in this aspect of the work, so please explain.
Mavalvala: To build one of these gravitational wave detectors — these laser interferometers — you really only need two ingredients. One, you need mirrors that are very, very still. Then two, you need a way of measuring any very small motions. So the name of the game is having ways to shield mirrors from external, non-gravitational wave forces and having laser lights precise enough that you can probe the tiny motions that are induced by gravitational waves. Once you have those two things, you have yourself a detector.
The changes that granted us more sensitivity during Advanced LIGO were vibration isolation systems that were better than in the previous generation. In a slightly jargon-y way, we don't use just passive isolation; we're also using active vibration isolation. The other thing we had to do was reduce the vibrations of the mirrors due to thermally driven fluctuations. Then finally, we put in a more powerful laser so that our signal-to-noise ratio improved. The list of technologies involved in these improvement is very long, but those are the broad-brush strokes.
TKF: Matt, part of your work involves figuring out the fundamental limits for LIGO and for future gravitational wave detectors. How much more sensitivity to gravitational waves can we achieve and why do we want to?
Evans: Putting first things first, we haven't really gotten the Advanced LIGO detectors working as well as they can be. We will in some time. We think we can get a factor of three times as much sensitivity as we have currently, which could bring ten times as many gravitational wave-producing events into LIGO's range. So we can expect a lot just from the Advanced LIGO detectors as we improve their function.
The next step we're looking at is actually something that Nergis has pioneered, and that's to use quantum optics in our detectors to reduce the quantum noise of the lights. Nergis talked about having lasers that were very precise and high-powered. But you can actually import techniques from a research field called quantum optics to try to reduce some of the randomness that's inherent to light. Then, we're looking farther into the future as to whether or not we can build detectors that are still another ten times more sensitive. That will probably involve a new facility and longer interferometers.
If you ask why we would want to do that, I think that we've just started this business. It looks like we have a lot of great physics and astrophysics we can do with these detectors. If we can make something ten times more sensitive, we'll be able to detect gravitational wave sources from anywhere in the universe.
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TKF: With an even more advanced LIGO, as well as future gravitational-wave observatories, what other phenomena in the universe will we get to understand in new ways?
Weiss: There is a whole spectrum of gravitational waves. With LIGO, we're looking for high-frequency waves. As to how high we can go, again, the piano analogy is a wonderful one. Because what we're looking for are sources that go from the bottom of the piano to the top of the piano. They don't stop at middle C, which is currently our detection limit with LIGO. They go higher.
Beyond that, a lot of people are working in other frequencies and other wavelengths where there are phenomena which LIGO will not see. For example, we talked earlier about the BICEP project, which is looking for signatures of gravitational waves affecting the relic radiation from the Big Bang, called the cosmic microwave background. Well, that's going to work someday, or it may be that a satellite has to do that observation. If there are gravitational waves from the first epochs of the universe, they're going to have periods, or cycles, that are stretched to on the order of the age of the universe itself, almost 14 billion years. So that's the lower limit to the spectrum.
For another example, there's a project that's been going on almost as long as LIGO called the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna Project, or LISA. It involves lasers beamed between spacecraft with baselines that are up to five million kilometers, not four kilometers, like LIGO's detection arms now, or even 40 kilometers like what Matt and Nergis want to do someday. LIGO can't touch LISA's detection spectrum, covering much longer wavelengths. With LISA, there's this wide open window with spectacular stuff in it, like binary white dwarf stars going around each other. Another is black holes with tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of the mass of the Sun, either colliding or having objects bend their orbit around them. You could do very, very careful tests of general relativity with that. I hope these other areas get dragged along by our discovery.
TKF: Do you think there are any astrophysical objects in our galactic neighborhood that could unleash sizeable gravitational waves detectable by LIGO, or are all the major sources going to be far away?
Evans: I suggest that we hope that there's nothing close by. [Laughter] The binary black hole system we detected was 1.5 billion light years distant. That's very, very far away, and in terms of how much energy was released so quickly, it was the most powerful explosion ever observed. So I think you wouldn't want that in your neighborhood.
Mavalvala: But maybe not too close, just within our galaxy…
Evans: Well, a Milky Way event would probably saturate our detectors, but it's not like it could hurt us or anything.
Weiss: Well, I hope you're right about that! [Laughter] If we ever happen to be around when a supernova goes off, that would be as spectacular as what we have discovered now because we will see everything that is going on deep inside the supernova. Gravitational waves come right out. Nothing scatters these waves, which is the opposite of light that never gets out of the core of the explosion to tell us anything.
Evans: I hate to get peoples' hopes up for a supernova because they are so rare, but Rai is absolutely right. If we detect one in our galaxy, it would be a wonderful piece of physics.
Mavalvala: I'll add that I hate to get peoples' hopes up for things we don't even know how to articulate yet. We don't fully know what's out there with this new way of looking at the universe in gravitational waves. So it's possible that there will be things maybe in our own galactic neighborhood, maybe far away, or maybe both that are just things we have not thought about yet.
Evans: That's very true. We've heard the loudest possible thing you could imagine go off and we got it, but hey, we're just getting started.
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WHAT HAVE APOLLO ASTRONAUTS BEEN HIDING FOR DECADES?
Three astronauts who served on the Apollo 10 mission dating back to 1969 — before Apollo 11's first manned moon landing — were terrified to hear radio transmissions similar to music during the radio-free mission while traversing the far side of the moon.
They were cut off from the Earth for about 60 minutes but still could hear radio sounds through their headsets after they entered lunar orbit. Astronauts were puzzled whether to report about the incident to NASA.
The released transcripts contained "strange, otherworldly music coming through the Apollo module's radio," the Science Channel series "NASA's Unexplained Files" found out.
AN APOLLO MISSION SECRETLY HIDDEN IN A CLASSIFIED TAPE FOR ALMOST 40 YEARS HAS BEEN FINALLY REVEALED, ACCORDING TO NASA RECENT REPORT.
The astronauts on board Apollo 10 can be heard talking about the "whistling sound
"You hear that? That whistling sound? Whooooooooo!" one of them says. Another astronaut said: "It sounds like, you know, outer space-type music."
"Well, that sure is weird music," one astronaut says. "Boy it got quiet, didn't it?" one can be heard.
Apollo astronauts debated the necessity to tell Mission Control about the strange music minutes before they regained radio contact with Earth.
"It's unbelievable", "Shall we tell them about it?", "I don't know. We ought to think about it," they questioned.
"The Apollo 10 crew was very used to the kind of noise that they should be hearing. Logic tells me that if there was something recorded on there, then there was something there," Apollo 15 astronaut Al Worden says on the Science Channel program. "NASA would withhold information from the public if they thought it was in the public's best interest."
The recordings remained classified in NASA's archives until 2008, prompting an ongoing discussion regarding the nature and origin of the "outer space-type music."
"If you're behind the moon and hear some weird noise on your radio, and you know you're blocked from the Earth, then what could you possibly think?" The Huffington Post quoted Worden as saying ( via sputniknews.com ).
Some astronauts assume the music could belong to aliens. "These noises some of them are really weird, they even sound un sub conditional like strange alien speech."
THE RUSSIAN ARMY TRANSPORTS THE MYSTERIOUS OBJECT ' ARK OF GABRIEL ' TO ANTARCTICA
Russian army is given a special task of protecting the religious object “Ark of Gabriel” while it is being transported to Antarctica.
The “Ark of Gabriel” is said to have such “military-religious” importance, that President Putin ordered a large number of naval warships to guide its journey from Saudi Arabia to Antartica.
To what spurred this astonishing mission, this report explains, was the contacting on 25 September of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow by representatives of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, regarding a mysterious ancient “device/weapon” discovered under the Masjid al-Haram Mosque (Grand Mosque) during what has turned into a very controversial construction project begun in 2014.
Gravely raising the concerns of the Grand Mosque emissaries, this report continues, was when this mysterious “device/weapon” was discovered on 12 September by a 15-man tunnel digging crew—and who in their attempting to remove it were instantly killed by a massive “plasma emission” so powerful it ejected from the ground toppling a construction crane killing, at least, another 107 people.
Catastrophically worse, this report notes, was that barely a fortnight after the first attempt to remove this mysterious “device/weapon” was made on 12 September, another attempt was made on 24 September which killed over 4,000 due to another massive “plasma emission” which put tens-of-thousands in panic—but which Saudi officials then blamed on a stampede.
After the catastrophic death toll involved with the Saudi’s second attempt to remove this mysterious “device/weapon”, this report says, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill was then contacted by the Grand Mosque emissaries in regards to one of the oldest Islamic manuscripts possessed by the Russian Orthodox Church that was saved from the Roman Catholic Crusaders in 1204 when they sacked the Church of Holy Wisdom (now known as Hagia Sophia) in Constantinople (present day Istanbul, Turkey) titled “Gabriel’s Instructions To Muhammad”.
Important to note, this report explains, and virtually unknown in the West, were that the Roman Catholic Crusades (and like they mirror today) were not only against the peoples of Islamic faith, but also against those having Russian Orthodox faith too—and why, during these crusades, the Russian Orthodox Church not only protected their own religious libraries from being destroyed, but also those belonging to Muslims.
As to the contents of this ancient Islamic manuscript, “Gabriel’s Instructions To Muhammad”, this report briefly notes, it centers around a group of instructions given to Muhammad by the Angel Gabriel in a cave called Hira, located on the mountain called Jabal an-Nour, near Mecca, wherein this heavenly being entrusted into Muhammad’s care a “box/ark” of “immense power” he was forbidden to use as it belonged to God only and was, instead, to be buried in a shrine at the “place of worship the Angels used before the creation of man” until its future uncovering in the days of Yawm al-Qīyāmah, or Qiyâmah, which means literally “Day of the Resurrection”.
As to what this mysterious “weapon/device” actually is we are not allowed to report on due to the strictures we have to abide by in being allowed to publish even the merest glimpses of what happens behind Kremlin walls we are currently permitted to do .
NASA are uniting with Scientists and Theologian’s to prepare mankind for Alien contact
It was only a couple of months ago that top US astronomers gathered in front of congress to let them know that Extraterrestrial life exists without question. Their main argument was the size of the universe, emphasizing that there are trillions of stars out there, with one in every five most likely harbouring an Earth-like planet. It’s also important to keep in mind that planets do not have to be “Earth-like” in order to harbour life.
“The number of habitable worlds in our galaxy is certainly in the tens of billions, minimum, and we haven’t even talked about the moons. And the number of galaxies we can see, other than our own, is about 100 billion.” – Seth Shostak, Senior Astronomer at California’s SETI Institute
Are we being prepared for what’s to come?
This time, NASA and the Library of Congress have teamed up bringing together scientists, theologians, philosophers and historians from around the globe for a two day symposium in order to discuss how to prepare the world for Extraterrestrial contact, whether it be microbial organisms or intelligent beings.
“We’re looking at all scenarios about finding life. If you find microbes, that’s one thing. If you find intelligence, it’s another. And if they communicate, it’s something else, and depending on what they say, it’s something else!
“The idea is not to wait until we make a discovery, but to try and prepare the public for what the implications might be when such a discovery is made. I think the reason that NASA is backing this is because of all the recent activity in the discovery of exoplanets and the advances in astrobiology in general.
“People just consider it much more likely now that we’re going to find something — probably microbes first and maybe intelligence later. The driving force behind this is from a scientific point of view that it seems much more likely now that we are going to find life at some point in the future.” – Astronomer, symposium organizer and former chief NASA historian, Steven J. Dick
One of the theologians present was Brother Guy Consolmagno, who is the new president of the Vatican Observatory Foundation. This is what he had to say:
“I Believe [alien life exists], but I have no evidence. I would be really excited and it would make my understanding of my religion deeper and richer in ways that I can’t even predict yet, which is why it would be so exciting.”
He is now urging the public not to be so surprised when extra-terrestrial life is discovered, because it will be discovered, sooner than later! He even said that he would be happy to baptize them, if it’s intelligent extraterrestrial life that’s discovered. The Vatican has been very open to the idea of intelligent extraterrestrial life, and they’ve expressed these views for a very long time. Earth is not the center of the universe, it’s not flat, and it’s looking very likely that the next major paradigm shifting revelation will be the fact that we are not alone in the universe and never have been. It’s great to see the mainstream world gather, discuss and prepare for this possibility and ultimate reality, and it’s a great seg-way to create more awareness about the world of secrecy, the world’s within our world that deal with projects the human race knows nothing about.
The Other Probability – Intelligent Extraterrestrial Life is Already Here!!
In just the United States alone, at least half of all Americans say that we are not alone in the universe. Fifty percent of Americans already believe that there is some form of life on other planets, while only seventeen percent think that there isn’t. A quarter of Americans believe that intelligent extra-terrestrial visitors have already come to Earth and have been doing so for a long time.
Here’s one of them:
“Yes there have been crashed craft, and bodies recovered. We are not alone in the universe, they have been coming here for a long time.” – Apollo 14 Astronaut, Air Force Captain and Founder of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, Dr. Edgar Mitchell
There are many reasons why the extraterrestrial question continues to gain increasing popularity. People are starting to ask questions about the world around them, people are starting to wake up and start utilizing critical thinking and investigation. After thoroughly investigating this topic your conclusions will be similar I’m sure, to the conclusions of the majority, we are not alone, and we are being visited.
1. The Size of the Universe
How often do you look up into the night sky and wonder just how many stars, planets, galaxies and more are out there? Looking out at night though our window to the Universe! Space has been a high area of interest that has always fascinated scientists, philosophers, musicians and pretty much just about everyone.
What is it about deep space that grabs our attention so much? To think about just how big the universe is can really put things into perspective.
Counting the stars in the universe is like trying to count the number of sand grains on a beach, not possible.
Although estimates vary among different experts, the general consensus is that there are at least between 100 billion and 200 billion galaxies in our universe. Think about that for a moment, and now throw in billions of stars in each galaxy! This number could very easily be in the trillions for all we know.
Take the Milky Way Galaxy for example, which measures to about 120,000 light years across (it would take light that many years to travel across the galaxy), and contains up to 400 billion stars. Again, that’s billions of galaxies that contain billions of stars.
Scientists estimate that at least 10 billion habitable Earth-sized planets exist in the milky way alone ( one galaxy out of billions), but it’s important to keep an open mind as to what type of conditions and environments some unknown extraterrestrial like forms could thrive in. They all don’t necessarily have to be Earth-like.
Given the estimations of the size of the universe, or multiverse (either or!), the odds are we are not alone.
2. Whistle Blowers
The past few years have seen a surge of whistle-blowers that’ve come out and said some remarkable things. Bradley Manning, Edward Snowden and Julian Assange have received the most attention, but the reality is that there are hundreds of whistle blowers who have come forward with verified credentials and backgrounds.
Mass survelience and the security state is not the only thing shocking people around the world, it’s the fact that many of these whistle blowers claim that we are not alone in the universe. It wouldn’t be so hard to ignore if it wasn’t for the backgrounds these people have in their respected fields.
The first one that comes to mind is Paul Hellyer, Former Canadian Defence Minister, the man responsible for unifying the Canadian Air Force, Army and the Navy into one united force now known as the Canadian Forces.
For someone with such a background to come out and make these extraordinary claims definitely grabbed the attention of many people.
Paul Hellyer
“Decades ago, visitors from other planets warned us about the direction we were heading and offered to help. Instead, some of us interpreted their visits as a threat, and decided to shoot first and ask questions after. Trillions of dollars have been spent on black projects which both congress and the commander in chief have deliberately been kept in the dark.”
”In one of the cases during the cold war, 1961, there were about 50 UFOs in formation flying South from Russia across Europe. The supreme allied commander was very concerned and was about ready to press the panic button when they turned around and went back over the North Pole. They decided to do an investigation and they investigated for three years and they decided that with absolute certainty that four different species, at least, have been visiting this planet for thousands of years. There’s been a lot more activity in the past two decades, especially since we invented the atomic bomb.” Paul Hellyer
Paul Hellyer isn’t the only one making extraordinary statements, at least a dozen NASA astronauts have done the same. Just like Dr. Edgar Mitchell’s quote, other astronauts have said some remarkable things. Let’s take a look at a few (out of many) examples.
“There is abundant evidence that we are being contacted, that civilizations have been monitoring us for a very long time. That their appearance is bizarre from any type of traditional materialistic western point of view. That these visitors use the technologies of consciousness, they use toroids, they use co-rotating magnetic disks for their propulsion systems, that seems to be a common denominator of the UFO phenomenon” – Dr. Brian O’leary, Former NASA Astronaut and Princeton Physics Professor
“In my opinion I think they were worried that it would panic the public so they started telling lies about it. And then I think they had to tell another lie to cover their first lie, now they don’t know how to get out of it. Now it’s going to be so embarrassing to admit that all these administrations have told so many untruths, it would be embarrassing getting out of it. There are a number of extraterrestrial vehicles out there cruising around.”– Gordon Cooper, Former NASA Astronaut, Aeronautical Engineer and test pilot. One of the seven original Astronauts in Project Mercury, the first manned space program of the United States
The list goes on and on and on, the latest in NASA Astronaut statements about UFOs came from the 2005 International Space Station (ISS) Commander, Leroy Chiao. You can read more about that HERE
Here is an intriguing video of John Podesta who was recently appointed as councilor to Barack Obama supporting UFO disclosure. Mr Podesta recently left the Obama administration and stated that one of his biggest regrets was not ensuring that UFO disclosure happened!
Some of the most extraordinary statements about UFOs and extraterrestrials come from persons who have held some of the highest positions known. Those who would be in a position to ‘know’ about possible extraterrestrial encounters and STILL the mainstream media keep quiet about it!?
“Behind the scenes, high ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense” Former head of CIA, Roscoe Hillenkoetter, 1960
“There is a serious possibility that we are being visited and have been visited for many years by people from outer space, by other civilizations. Who they are, where they are from, and what they want should be the subject of rigorous scientific investigation and not be the subject of ‘rubishing’ by tabloid newspapers”– Lord Admiral Hill-Norton, Former Chief of Defence Staff, 5 Star Admiral of the Royal Navy,Chairman of the NATO Military Committee
“There is a serious possibility that we are being visited and have been visited for many years by people from outer space, by other civilizations. Who they are, where they are from, and what they want should be the subject of rigorous scientific investigation and not be the subject of ‘rubishing’ by tabloid newspapers.” – Lord Admiral Hill-Norton, Former Chief of Defence Staff, 5 Star Admiral of the Royal Navy, Chairman of the NATO Military Committee
The list of military whistle blowers seems to go on forever, with hundreds of them and hundreds of quotes to choose from. To view military whistleblowers (with verified backgrounds) give a press conference at The National Press Club about UFOs deactivating nuclear weapons, click HERE. You can also look up Dr. Steven Greer and his disclosure project. The list of quotes from all fields, from many people is outstanding. I could literally fill pages upon pages so I’ll stop here, I think you all should get the picture by now. These famous quotes by whistleblowers and people with prestigious backgrounds leads perfectly into the next point as to why almost everybody knows that we are not alone in the universe!
“There is another way whether it’s wormholes or warping space, there’s got to be a way to generate energy so that you can pull it out of the vacuum, and the fact that they’re here shows us that they found a way.” – Jack Kasher, Ph.D, Professor Emeritus of Physics, University of Nebraska
“This thing has gotten so highly-classified…it is just impossible to get anything on it. I have no idea who controls the flow of need-to-know because, frankly, I was told in such an emphatic way that it was none of my business that I’ve never tried to make it to be my business since. I have been interested in this subject for a long time and I do know that whatever the Air Force has on the subject is going to remain highly classified” – Senator Barry Goldwater , Chairman of the Senate intelligence committee
3. The Evidence of UFOs
Over the recent years, dozens of governments admitted to allocating resources and having programs to study the UFO phenomenon. For instance, in Canada the RCMP, Transport Canada, and the Department of National Defence recently admitted to tracking UFOs and investigating them.
They, our so-called leaders have been doing it for years, accumulating thousands upon thousands of UFO related documents. Many of these documents have since been officially released.
HERE is the latest batch of UFO files released from the United Kingdom:
Documents released by the National Security Agency (NSA) reveal what is recorded when a UFO is being tracked on radar. HEREis one example. HERE is a four page U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency and NSA report describing a particular encounter in great detail.
The NSA Headquarters in FT.Meade
“As the F-4 approached a range of 25 nautical miles it lost all instrumentation and communications. When the F-4 turned away from the object and apparently was no longer a threat to it, the aircraft regained all instrumentation and communications. Another brightly lighted object came out of the original object. The second object headed straight toward the F4. ”
HERE is also a Wikileak cable that describes how some politicians already know we are not alone in the universe. You can read more about that HERE.
The list goes on and on and thousands upon thousands of UFO related documents are now available in the public domain. For a summary of more documents that have been declassified and made available, a video done by UFO Richard Dolan does a great one in 10 minutes. To watch it click HERE and see what type of information is out there.
4. Mass Mainstream Media Attention
The Media outlets of all kind are covering the topic, almost every movie that comes out these days has something to do with space or some kind of extraterrestrial intelligence. We’ve been bombarded with the topic for a while now so it’s not hard to see how it’s on the minds of many. Just by putting your TV on you are bombarded with references to space and what lies beyond!
The most recent case of mainstream extraterrestrial ‘noise’ was made when scientists recently spoke to the house Committee on Science, Space and Technology. Dan Werthimer of the SETI Research Centre at the University of California, Berkeley, recently called for more funding to be allocated to the search for extraterrestrial life since he is “close to 100 percent” certain that we are not alone.
In mid 2013, the same committee held a hearing about exoplanet discoveries, but perhaps one of the largest UFO/extraterrestrial hearings came at the National Press Club, which also took place in Mid-2013.
At this event, hundreds of researchers, activists and military/ agency/ political witnesses representing ten countries gave UFO/extraterrestrial testimony to six former members of the United States Congress about events and evidence indicating an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race.
Former Sen. Mike Gravel (D-Alaska), and 2008 presidential candidate said that there is “an extraterrestrial influence that is investigating our planet. Something is monitoring the planet and they are monitoring it very cautiously.” You can learn more about the citizens hearing here.
Apart from these events, UFOs are constantly a topic of interest in today’s mainstream news. Unfortunately, most mainstream media outlets that cover the topic seek out to ridicule it rather than investigating it properly.
To view military whistleblowers (with verified backgrounds) give a press conference at The National Press Club about UFOs deactivating nuclear weapons, click HERE.
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5. Personal Experience & Video Footage
There are literally millions of people out there claiming to have contact with extraterrestrial beings. This has played a large role in spreading the influence of extraterrestrial interest across the world. I myself have a 100% seen ET crafts! All of us seem to be naturally fascinated with the unknown, especially when it comes to space. It seems like human nature, perhaps something built into our Genetic code!?
So many of us have seen something!
Neuroscience can now pretty much explain what happens to our body when we meditate, but it’s something we all knew to be beneficial before the science. Is extraterrestrial life similar? Is it something we all feel deep down inside, something we don’t need proof for? (Even though the proof is very much here).
Besides there being thousands of videos available on YouTube, there is some very fascinating officially documented UFO footage available for us to see. Click HERE to see raw footage of a UFO showing up in Norway for scientists at their observatory.
Click HERE and HERE to see film from the 1991 NASA STS-48 Discovery Space Shuttle mission. It’s some of the best, officially documented UFO footage that’s out there today.
All you have to do is a quick UFO search on youtube and you’ll see many fakes, but many real videos of unknown aerial objects. (avoid Third Phase Of The Moon)
U.I.P Summary
I guess the question was always “Do UFOs exist?” Today that question has been answered well and truly, and the presence of UFOs performing maneuvers that defy our laws of physics has been well documented all over the Planet. The question now has to be, “Is that an extraterrestrial space craft?”
There is nothing to fear, as they have been around forever. They have been aware of us long before we have been aware of them, watching us, possibly reviewing us all. As speculated with our ancient civilizations in Earth’s brief past, perhaps they will one day interact with humanity again. I guess we will see. Perhaps some groups are concerned about our planet, and come here further pushing the idea that we need to start changing the way we are doing things here. Perhaps one day soon we will find out. I definitely believe that a good chunk of these UFOs are of extraterrestrial origin. I also believe that many of these crafts are “ours.” perhaps stolen technology off our ET visitors!?
A leading scientist and astronomer from the SETI Institute has a rather stark warning for the human race, that if alien beings ever visited Earth, they will be the ones to “set the rules”
In what appears to be a rather negative message about life beyond planet earth, it has been said by a senior figure at SETI, that if Aliens managed to travel the depths of space to find us it would Not be particularly good news for us all – due to their far superior technology and advances in science!
Jill Tarter who is part of the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Life (SETI) Institute and a member of the management board for the Allen Telescope Array in California, believes that with the Aliens advance technology will be used to enslave us all.
Alientechnology could be vastly different to our own
With what appears to be a rather negative announcement about the Extraterrestrials, this news appears to be a bit too much of a coincidence that SETI are now officially assisting the US Government/Military (please click HERE) – perhaps they have been promised more funding, if they say what the government WANT them to say!?
Jill Tarter said:
“If they showed up on our doorstep, that means they have technologies that are considerably advanced with respect to ours,” she said.
“And because of that, they’re going to be the ones that set the rules.”
It has also been suggested by SETI that the reason we have not contacted Aliens yet (?) is due to the fact that our technology might not be compatible with theirs – yet more negativity from SETI, almost like they are trying to inform the world that the ‘Aliens aren’t visiting us!’
Could it be that the guys at SETI know more than they are making out?
SETI are currently sending radio waves out deep into the unknown universe, in the hope of one day hopefully receiving a response from the ET’s. But SETI have suggested that perhaps there’s nothing that says that the aliens will be aware of or even use radio waves to communicate – surely a far more advanced species would have ways of discovering unknown signals in space!?
“We may not have invented the right way to do this yet,” concedes Tarter, who obtained a PhD in Astronomy from the University of California, Berkley and worked as a Project Scientist for NASA’s SETI program before it was terminated in 1993. She has received two public service medals from the space agency.
SETI also believe that we may not of discovered the Aliens yet, due to the vastness of space/the Universe! Again yet more negativity which is trying to highlight to the world that ‘we have no knowledge about the Aliens’.
It was according to Tarter, that if you look at space as the equivalent of Earth’s oceans, then on the same scale we’ve examined the equivalent of a glass of water, which is a fair enough comment to make, HOWEVER a far more advanced species cold have explored FAR more of the Universe than what we have!
Destruction for the human race or a day of change when the ET’s officially show up!?
“If there is a civilisation out there that is only 1,000 years older than we are, who knows what type of technology, or what type of process, they’ve put into communicating with others,” agrees Dr Nathalie Cabrol, who now heads up the SETI Institute.
It is rather interesting that while SETI might think we’re some way off communicating with aliens, NASA have recently confirmed that we’ll do it in the next couple of decades – It is clear that both organisations are hiding something.
NASA astronomer Kevin Hand said:
“I think in the next 20 years we will find out we are not alone in the universe.”Said NASA
Nasa Administrator Charles Bolden added: “I would venture to say that most of my colleagues here say it is improbable that in the limitless vastness of the universe we humans stand alone.”
Mars and a number of moons in our solar system have been the focus of the search for alien life for decades. But it is through new telescopes launched into space have massively increased the number of planets outside our solar system that may support life.
U.I.P SUMMARY – First things first, you get good and bad in every walk of life so by SETI making such a negative announcement about the ET’ s makes us guys here at U.I.P wonder about exactly what SETI are up to!?
Could it be that the main guys that now fund SETI again (the US military) are asking the researchers to give this kind of negative news about the Aliens!? Yes I guess there is a risk that there are aliens out there that could present a risk to us all, but on the flip side of this there could also be ET’s out there that could help educate us, and help put an end to our destructive ways.
No matter what, one thing is very clear ~ The Elite do not in any way want us to know the TRUTH and they also want us to be afraid of anybody not from this planet that we live on. I don’t know about you but I feel we need to be more afraid of those that are trying to control us NOW, our world ‘leaders’
Mysterious Shrieking Noise in Oregon, Feb 2016, TV News Videos, UFO Sighting News
Date of anomaly: February 2016 Location of anomaly: Forest Grove, Oregon News source: http://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/mysterious-shrieking-sound-frustrates-oregon-community/story?id=36998846 Around the world, strange sounds echoing across the cities are being heard. No one knows where they are coming from and no one has any answers. Often people say it sounds as if its coming from under the ground or from above in the sky itself. Is it caused by a hovering UFO in the area? Or perhaps a newly active alien base under ground? Whatever this is...people are becoming concerned.
There may be a way to find it. There are apps that you can download on your phone that measure the strength of the sound. If you live in this city, download one or two and open it up. I use "Decibel 10th" app, heres a screenshot. Move locations in 30-50 meter intervals until the app indicates the sound is getting stronger. Eventually you will find the epicenter of the sound, but you might want to use some earplugs. Good hunting. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
ABC News states: A mysterious shrieking sound has left the residents of one Oregon neighborhood seriously perplexed. Dave Nemeyer, fire marshal of the Forest Grove Fire and Rescue in Forest Grove, Oregon, told ABC News that he first learned of the strange noise after a local resident recorded and shared a video of it on the city's Facebook page. "It's definitely a horrendous noise," Nemeyer said. "I have no idea what the noise is. [The resident] described to us that it was coming from the middle of the street. To me, it sounds like the sound of train tracks, that metal screeching sound, but there are no train tracks near her home ... so that's obviously ruled out."
Rick Vanderkin, the city's public works superintendent, told ABC News that very few people have heard the sound, making it difficult to locate and even more difficult to make an "educated guess as to what's creating the noise." So far, officials have ruled out a water valve, a gas leak and wildlife as possible culprits. Forest Grove resident Colleen Ahrens told ABC News affiliate KATU in Portland that she's been woken up three or four times by the sound. "It almost sounds like someone needs to change their brakes," she said. Ahrens said her husband is a mechanic and when she described the noise to him, he thought a worn brake pad could be the source. But after she listened to the recording, she's not so sure anymore. Chester Epperson, who lives across the street from Ahrens, hadn't heard the sound himself, but dismissed it after KATU played the recording for him. "Maybe 'The X-Files' back on TV again," Epperson joked. "High-pitched, it's got a pause. I'll keep my ears out."
Top Secret UK Documents Which Prove ‘Aliens EXIST’ To Be Released In Days?
Apparently confidential government reports into UFO sightings – dubbed the “British X-Files” – could be made publicly available within days!
The long-awaited boost for alien hunters follows years of campaigning by the British disclosure movement, who want all world Governments to release all their alien files.
UFO researchers, backed by a House of Lords peer, have been fighting for the release of 18 top secret Ministry of Defence (MoD) files about UFO sightings from more than 30 years ago.
The Government faced claims of a cover-up from conspiracy theorists when their release was stalled at the end of 2013.
Some investigators claim the files could provide key evidence of extra-terrestrial life visiting the UK and of specific information about famous controversial sightings such as the Rendlesham Forest incident – a series of reported sightings of unexplained lights and the alleged landing of one or more craft in Suffolk in late December 1980.
Lord Black of Brentwood, who asked the Government for an update through a Parliamentary question last summer, was assured the files would be released by the MoD to the National Archives by March this year.
This could very well be HUGE news for Disclosure – A huge can of worms is about to be opened it appears!
The top-secret files could be declassified within days
This very long-awaited boost for Truth seekers follows years of campaigning by the British disclosure movement, who want all world Governments to release all their alien files.
Leading UFO researchers, backed by a House of Lords peer, have been fighting for the release of 18 top secret Ministry of Defence (MoD) files about UFO sightings from more than 30 years ago!
The British Government faced claims of a cover-up from conspiracy theorists when their release was stalled way back at the end of 2013.
Many leading investigators and researchers believe that these important files could provide key evidence of extra-terrestrial life visiting the UK and of specific information about famous controversial sightings such as the Rendlesham Forest incident – which is a series of reported sightings of unexplained lights and the alleged landing of one or more craft in Suffolk in late December 1980.
Lord Black of Brentwood, who asked the Government for an update through a Parliamentary question last summer, was assured the files would be released by the MoD to the National Archives by March this year – BUT will they stick to this promise!?
Lord Black of Brentwood DEMANDS the truth from the UK Government about the UFO’s in the skies above us!
Truth Seekers around the world are VERY confident that these records could very well prove if extra-terrestrial life actually exists, as these are the most secretive files held in the private offices of various Cabinet ministers – Although the files are being released to the National Archives, it is not yet clear when they will be available for public inspection and many people expect intentional delays, this is because the archive organisation can set its own release date!
In his Parliamentary question, Lord Black asked:
“What is the latest estimate of when the 18 files will be passed to the National Archives, and then released to the public.” He said.
Defence Minister Earl Howe replied:
“The latest estimate of when the 18 files will be delivered to the National Archives is before March 2016.
“The National Archives will make the necessary judgement about when they release these files to the public.”
A large number of older UFO files held by the UK government have already been released, including details of sightings by officials and police.
U.I.P’s friend Nick Pope, who actually used to investigate the existence of UFOs for the MoD, said the files should contain some extremely fascinating sightings.
However, referring to what is often called the most famous UFO claim in history – sparked by claims an alien spaceship crashed in New Mexico, US, in 1947 – Nick Pope added the soon-to-be-released files are probably not a “UK Roswell-style UFO in a hangar style cover up”.
When the release of the files were stalled in 2014, which the MoD blamed on “additional processing requirements”, Mr Pope sympathised with alien researchers and also believed that these were potential ‘delaying tactics’.
He said at the time:
“This massive delay will have conspiracy theorists up in arms. It looks like the MoD is stalling.
“The suspicion will be that there’s a bombshell in these files and that the Ministry does not know how to handle it.
“I can understand why conspiracy theorists will be angry and suspicious.”
Nick Pope also demands the TRUTH.
Nick Pope worked for the British MoD for at least 21 years, but was specifically assigned to investigate UFOs for an intriguing three-year period!
He said:
“Having worked on the MoD’s UFO project I’m sorry to say that we don’t have any crashed spaceships hidden away in some RAF hangar, as some believe, but we do have some fascinating and unexplained cases in our files.”
The ‘Redlesham Forest incident’, which is alleged to have taken place near RAF Woodbridge, Suffolk, in 1980, saw US Airman First Class John Burroughs, who was stationed there, exposed to radiation after a mystery “UFO visitation”.
He has since won damages from the American military, but still wants answers about what happened and hopes they will be in the new files.
Pat Frascogna, his lawyer, said:
“We know there is information contained in these MoD files about the Rendlesham Forest incident because the MoD clearly indicated so in responding to a Freedom of Information request by John Burroughs last year.”
Check out this incredible sighting at Rendlesham recently involving a British Apache Gunship and an Orb:
A large UFO and a number of small ones were reported in Long Island, New York near the Brookhaven National Laboratory. That’s the Department of Energy Lab originally set up by the Atomic Energy Commission for peacetime nuclear research. It’s also the place where the wreckage of an alien spacecraft that crashed in Long Island was rumored to be taken for storage and research. Could aliens have finally come back for their ship?
An anonymous witness from Long Island reported seeing a large cigar-shaped UFO on November 23, 2015, at around 6:45 pm. He said the silent UFO had a light at each end, changed altitude and speed quickly and hovered in one spot for over an hour. That spot was over Brookhaven National Laboratory – more on that later. It was also where the large UFO was circled by 4 or 5 smaller UFOs that all eventually disappeared. The witness claimed that he had seen UFOs often in this area and believed it has something to do with the lab.
Aerial view of the Brookhaven National Laboratory
That “something” might be a crashed UFO. According to reports from that time, on November 24, 1992, Walter Knowles saw a UFO near the vicinity of the lab at 7 pm. He stopped his car and watched the tube-shaped UFO with lights at either end along with a number of other motorists. They saw the object fly erratically and crash; then they watched a beam of white light shoot into the sky. The light was reportedly seen by residents in the area, along with what appeared to be the glow of a fire. There were also reports of telephone and cable TV outages, household appliances malfunctioning and car batteries draining.
Knowles claimed he went to the crash site but was turned away, along with local police officers, by men in black jumpsuits. He and others said they saw large objects being taken out of the area on military flatbed trucks to Brookhaven National Laboratory. A video from that time allegedly showed what appear to be bodies or body parts being taken there as well.
This is not a UFO but the lab’s Alternating Gradient Synchroton
The story of the UFO, wreckage and alien bodies has long been dismissed by the lab. The usual explanation is that the lab had the closest firefighting team and equipment and that’s why trucks and personnel were seen traveling to and from the fire.
Is this why UFOs seem to be attracted to the Brookhaven National Laboratory? Or could it be because of accidents, like the 1994 fire in the high-beam flux reactor or the 1997 leak of tritium into local groundwater? UFOs are frequently seen at nuclear sites that have had problems.
As of this writing, there has been no official comment on the latest sighting. The witness is a longtime resident who says it was not a plane from the nearby airport.
Did aliens come back to the Brookhaven lab for their compatriots?
India continues to be the hot spot for UFO activity these days. Hot on the heels of the UFOs spotted in New Delhi at the Indira Gandhi International Airport (which the Indian Air Force has orders to shoot down), a red UFO reportedly landed in a village in southwestern India. Terrified villagers said a “humanoid figure” briefly emerged from the spacecraft, then quickly reentered before the UFO took off in a shower of sparks and flashes.
The women claim that the spacecraft descended close to 500 feet from them and they could spot humanoid figures. They have no clue about aliens and they have not even heard about such things. So we are assuming that they are not lying.
That’s the comment of an investigator who interviewed field workers in Kanagal, a village in the Mysuru district in the southwestern state of Karnataka. The seven villagers who witnessed it claim the incident occurred on October 1st at about 2 pm. After the red UFO landed, the humanoid, dressed in an orange uniform, came towards them, appeared to take some photographs, then went back to the craft and left. The report of sparks and flames is unusual since most UFO witnesses say the crafts are silent and have no exhaust.
UFOs trailed by flames are unusual and may be in trouble
What did these women see? Since it’s a small farming village, some say the witnesses may have seen a military aircraft that they were unfamiliar with. However, they did recognize that the “humanoid” was using a camera (although it seems none of them had one) and that it was definitely an “-oid” and not just a human. What was this humanoid in orange? Why would it appear to take pictures of the villagers? Was it using something other than a camera? Why did it come that close but not attempt to make any other contact? Did it sense their fear? Did their rakes and shovels look like weapons?
An alien in orange … T’Pol?
Is this sighting connected to the recent one at the Indira Gandhi Airport? Kanagal is 2,300 km )1,400 miles) from New Delhi, but that’s probably nothing for an alien spacecraft, especially one that might be hiding from Indian Air Force jets looking to shoot it down. What about the sparks and flames? Was this a do-it-yourself UFO? Did it have a bumper sticker that said ‘My other spacecraft is a mother-ship’?
While we wait for more information, we should keep an eye on India, the new hotbed of UFO activity.
Of the many and varied UFO reports that have been declassified into the public domain via the U.S. Freedom of Information Act, some stand out more than others. A few reallystand out. And here’s one of them. Located in the UFO archives of the FBI, it tells the fascinating story of the tracking of a massive UFO – in 1951 – by the U.S. military. Indeed, upon reading the report, it’s very difficult to rule out the likelihood that something genuinely weird was at the heart of the affair. And it all begins like this…
An FBI document of September 20, 1951, and captioned “Flying Saucers,” reads as follows: “On September 20, Andrew J. Reid G-2 [Army Intelligence] Ft. Monmouth, NJ, provided following report of unconventional aircraft observed by radar at above Army installation. On Sept 10, fiftyone [sic], an AN/MPG-1 radar set picked up a fast moving low flying target, exact altitude undetermined at approximately 11:10 a.m., southeast of Ft. Monmouth at a range of about twelve thousand yards. The target appeared to approximately follow the coast line, changing its range only slightly but changing its azimuth rapidly. The radar set was set to full aided azimuth tracking which normally is fast enough to track jet aircraft, but in this case was too slow to be resorted to. Target was lost in the N.E. at a range of about fourteen thousand yards.”
The story gets even more controversial, as the next part of the report makes very clear: “This target also presented an unusually strong return for aircraft[,] being comparable in strength to that usually received from a coastal ship [italics mine]. The operator initially identified target as a ship and then realized that it could not be a ship after he observed its extreme speed. September 10, fiftyone [sic] an SCR-584 radar set, at 3:15p.m., tracking a target which moved about slowly in azimuth north of Ft. Monmouth at a range of about 42,000 yards at extremely unusual elevation angle.”
In no time at all, a second radar operator was tracking the movements of the “coastal ship”-sized UFO. The file states: “Both sets found it impossible to track the target in range due to it speed and the operators had to resort to manual range tracking in order to hold the target. The target was tracked in this manner to the maximum tracking range of 32,000 yards. The operator said the target to be moving at a speed several hundred mph higher than the maximum aided tracking ability of the radar sets. The target provided an extremely strong return echo at times even though it was the maximum range. However, echo signal occasionally fell off to a level below normal return. These changes coincided with maneuvers of the target.”
Things were far from over. They actually got even stranger: “On September 11, fiftyone [sic] at about 1:30 p.m. the target was picked up on an SCR-584 radar set that displayed unusual maneuverability. Target was approximately over Navesink, NJ, as indicated by his 10,000 range, 6,000 feet altitude and due north azimuth. The target remained practically stationary on the scope and appeared to be hovering [italics mine]. The operator looked out of the vehicle housing the radar in an attempt to see the target, since it was at such a short range, however, overcast conditions prevented such observation.”
Even more extraordinary maneuvers were exhibited by the UFO: “Returning to their operating position the target was observed to be changing in elevation at an extremely rapid rate, but change in range was so slow the operator believed the target must have risen nearly vertically [italics mine]…Once again the speed of the target exceeded the tracking ability of the SCR-584 set so that manual tracking became necessary…The weather was fair when the observation was made September 10th and cloudy for the September 11th report.”
Hardly surprisingly, the report provoked significant concern within the U.S. military and the intelligence community.
CIA cover up: Spooks secrecy over UFO sightings to prevent 'mass hysteria' exposed
IT HAS long been claimed the US Government, its enforcement agencies, and NASA have been involved in a massive cover up over contact with aliens and UFOs.
Old files released by the CIA have exposed the agency's previous UFO cover ups
Most notably, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have been fingered by conspiracists as being at the heart of it and even responsible for controlling the mythical men in black - mysterious black-suited shades wearing men who turn up to dampen down any UFO or alien hysteria, reportedly telling any witnesses "it didn't happen."
But has the release dampened down the conspiracy or merely confirmed it?
Tucked away in the several files now on its website are a number of references to several sightings official investigators were UNABLE to explain and orders that followed that could be interpreted as a cover up.
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Scores of unexplained UFO sightings were revealed and also a policy not to release details
There is even reference to the potential to mirror Soviet state-controlled media censureship of flying saucer sightings.
As many as 26 per cent of reported sightings could not be explained and could be down to aliens, according to reports written in the 1950s.
One is a report by the then deputy assistant director/acting chief of the Weapons & Equipment Division dated August 1, 1952 and entitled "Flying Saucers" by Edward Tauss.
It was an "overall evaluation of "flying saucer sightings" for the agency.
It told of between 1,000 and 2,000 reported sightings, most were either "phoney," known US aircraft, or natural or weather phenomena such as meteorites, clouds, tricks of the light, or reflections.
But it said there were touching 100 "reasonably credible reports" that remained "unexplainable" - meaning "interplanetary aspects and alien origin were not thoroughly excluded" - so approaching five to 10 per cent of the sightings were unresolved.
Later reports quoted higher amounts of unexplained cases at 20 and 26 per cent.
The report went on to say that while it was likely there could be explanations if more information were available, as long as there remained inexplicable reports, the CIA interest in the subject should continue.
It said: "It is recommended that CIA surveillance of subject matter, in accordance with proper authorities of primary operational concern at Air Technical Intelligence Centre, be continued.
"It is strongly urged, however, that no indication of CIA interest or concern reach the press or public, in view of their probable alarmist tendencies to accept such interest as 'confirmatory' of the soundness of the 'unpublished facts' in the hands of the US Government.
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Paragraphs from the report outlining CIA fear over public mass hysteria and the secrecy policy
The earliest UFO sightings
Although many UFO sightings often have rational explanations, a small number truly are unexplained. Here's our pick of the most compelling early UFO sightings from all over the world.
In order to minimise the risk of panic, a national policy should be established as to what should be told to the public regarding the phenomena
CIA memo
On October 2, 1952, a memo was sent from the assistant director of scientific intelligence to the director of central intelligence with the subject Flying Saucers.
It explored the risks of the general population believing aliens were visiting Earth in UFOs.
It said: "Flying saucers pose two elements of danger which have national security implications.
"The first involves mass psychological considerations and the second concerns the vulnerability of the United States to Air Attack."
It went on to recommend developing "a policy of public information which will minimise concern and possible panic resulting from the numerous sightings of unidentified objects".
The memo added that it had found no coverage in the Soviet press, even satirical, of the flying saucer subject.
It added: "With a state-controlled press, this could result only from an official policy decision.
"The question therefore arises as to whether or not these sightings could be 1) controlled or 2) predicted.
"The public concern with the phenomena, indicates that a fair proportion of our population is mentally conditioned to the acceptance of the incredible.
"In this fact lies the potential for the touching off of mass hysteria and panic.
"In order to minimise the risk of panic, a national policy should be established as to what should be told to the public regarding the phenomena."
The released files date from the 1940s to 1978, and the CIA now says it has no interest in the UFO subject, as there has since been found to be no real threat to national or world security from unexplained anaomalies.
It says there is no continued UFO media blackout underway as a result.
But conspiracists, and even respected UFO investigators, disagree and believe that a wealth of more up to date evidence is being kept from the public.
The Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) is a not-for-profit organisation which investigates UFO and alien phenomena across the globe.
Jan Harzan, executive director of the US-Based Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), said he believes the CIA releases were: "Just trying to play off the X-Files TV show to show themselves to be friendly to the American public.
"What would be very helpful is if they would release the 1,000s of reports they probably have since 1978 and even some of the gun camera video footage they have of military jets chasing these objects across the sky, and provide the analysis of what these object could be."
One of the most fascinating of all UFO encounters – an incident that almost resulted in a mid-air collision between a UFO and a Meteor jet – occurred over Royal Air Force Gaydon, Warwickshire, England, on the night of October 21, 1957. Less than a week later, the UK media was chasing down the story. Describing RAF Gaydon as “one of the RAF’s top V-bomber stations,” the Sunday Express newspaper stated that the Air Ministry (today, the Ministry of Defense) had taken rapid steps to get to the heart of the mystery.
Reportedly, the UFO was seen visually by the pilot and tracked by ground-radar personnel – and only a few minutes apart. Questions, unsurprisingly, were quickly being asked: could the UFO actually have been a Soviet spy-plane? It was certainly a scenario that the Air Ministry felt important enough to address. Although – as will become apparent – the description given by the pilot did not sound like that of the average Russian aircraft. Plus, six days after the event occurred, Air Ministry staff were still scratching their heads.
The Sunday Express revealed something notable: “The Air Ministry is awaiting the report of a senior intelligence officer who has visited Gaydon and other stations concerned. This is the first time that an unidentified flying object – as the Air Ministry calls them – has been detected both from the air and the ground.”
The facts were as follows: At 9:18 p.m. on the night in question, Flying Officer D.R. Sweeney – who was described as “a pilot of considerable experience” – was flying aMeteor on a training mission from RAF Station North Luffenham. All was normal until Sweeney reached a height of approximately 28,000 feet. As he flew in a westerly direction, Sweeney “almost collided” with an unidentified object. Whatever the nature of the craft, Sweeney was only sure of three things: (A) the UFO was illuminated by six lights; (B) it was flying at a very slow speed; and (C) he was directly over RAF Gaydon when the encounter occurred, and where “atom-bomber crews train in Valiants.”
Such was his extremely close proximity to the UFO at one point, Flying Officer Sweeney was forced to take immediate “violent avoiding action” after he approached the unknown craft from the starboard side. As Sweeney got closer to the UFO it quickly extinguished its lights and vanished from view. It was, however, when he was at his closest to the object that Sweeney was able to take a careful, but quick, look at it before it disappeared. Oddly, he described the UFO as having a “blurred” outline, adding that it was not of any appreciable size. In fact, quite the opposite.
Back to the Sunday Express: “Senior officers at once connected Flying Officer Sweeney’s report with a radar sighting reported a few minutes earlier from RAF Station Langtoft.” Sure enough, the radar report from Langtoft placed the UFO at 28,000 feet over RAF Gaydon – which accorded exactly with Sweeney’s report. Hasty checks revealed that no other military aircraft were in the area. That went for civilian aircraft, too.
Back in the 1990s, I tried – unsuccessfully – to find the official report on Flying Officer Sweeney’s encounter in the National Archives, Kew, England. We’re told by officialdom that a certain number of early UFO reports held by the Air Ministry were routinely destroyed after a handful of years. Perhaps, that’s what happened to the “Sweeney file.” On the other hand, maybe it’s still filed away, hidden, lost, or misplaced. Maybe, one day, it will surface. If it does, we might know whether or not – back in October 1957 – a UK military aircraft almost collided with something suspected as being not of this earth. Or, maybe, Russian. Although, given the alleged widespread destruction of 1950s-era files said to contain extraordinary UFO data, I’m hardly holding my breath.
Five-dimensional black hole could 'break' general relativity
Researchers have shown how a bizarrely shaped black hole could cause Einstein's general theory of relativity, a foundation of modern physics, to break down. However, such an object could only exist in a universe with five or more dimensions.
The researchers, from the University of Cambridge and Queen Mary University of London, have successfully simulated a black hole shaped like a very thin ring, which gives rise to a series of 'bulges' connected by strings that become thinner over time. These strings eventually become so thin that they pinch off into a series of miniatureblack holes, similar to how a thin stream of water from a tap breaks up into droplets.
Ring-shaped black holes were 'discovered' by theoretical physicists in 2002, but this is the first time that their dynamics have been successfully simulated using supercomputers. Should this type of black hole form, it would lead to the appearance of a 'naked singularity', which would cause the equations behind general relativity to break down. The results are published in the journal Physical Review Letters.
General relativity underpins our current understanding of gravity: everything from the estimation of the age of the stars in the universe, to the GPS signals we rely on to help us navigate, is based on Einstein's equations. In part, the theory tells us that matter warps its surrounding spacetime, and what we call gravity is the effect of that warp. In the 100 years since it was published, general relativity has passed every test that has been thrown at it, but one of its limitations is the existence of singularities
A singularity is a point where gravity is so intense that space, time, and the laws of physics, break down. General relativity predicts that singularities exist at the centre of black holes, and that they are surrounded by an event horizon - the 'point of no return', where the gravitational pull becomes so strong that escape is impossible, meaning that they cannot be observed from the outside.
"As long as singularities stay hidden behind an event horizon, they do not cause trouble and general relativity holds - the 'cosmic censorship conjecture' says that this is always the case," said study co-author Markus Kunesch, a PhD student at Cambridge's Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP). "As long as the cosmic censorship conjecture is valid, we can safely predict the future outside of black holes. Because ultimately, what we're trying to do in physics is to predict the future given knowledge about the state of the universe now."
But what if a singularity existed outside of an event horizon? If it did, not only would it be visible from the outside, but it would represent an object that has collapsed to an infinite density, a state which causes the laws of physics to break down. Theoretical physicists have hypothesised that such a thing, called a naked singularity, might exist in higher dimensions.
"If naked singularities exist, general relativity breaks down," said co-author Saran Tunyasuvunakool, also a PhD student from DAMTP. "And if general relativity breaks down, it would throw everything upside down, because it would no longer have any predictive power - it could no longer be considered as a standalone theory to explain the universe."
We think of the universe as existing in three dimensions, plus the fourth dimension of time, which together are referred to as spacetime. But, in branches of theoretical physics such as string theory, the universe could be made up of as many as 11 dimensions. Additional dimensions could be large and expansive, or they could be curled up, tiny, and hard to detect. Since humans can only directly perceive three dimensions, the existence of extra dimensions can only be inferred through very high energy experiments, such as those conducted at the Large Hadron Collider.
Einstein's theory itself does not state how many dimensions there are in the universe, so theoretical physicists have been studying general relativity in higher dimensions to see if cosmic censorship still holds. The discovery of ring-shaped black holes in five dimensions led researchers to hypothesise that they could break up and give rise to a naked singularity.
What the Cambridge researchers, along with their co-author Pau Figueras from Queen Mary University of London, have found is that if the ring is thin enough, it can lead to the formation of naked singularities.
Using the COSMOS supercomputer, the researchers were able to perform a full simulation of Einstein's complete theory in higher dimensions, allowing them to not only confirm that these 'black rings' are unstable, but to also identify their eventual fate. Most of the time, a black ring collapses back into a sphere, so that the singularity would stay contained within the event horizon. Only a very thin black ring becomes sufficiently unstable as to form bulges connected by thinner and thinner strings, eventually breaking off and forming a naked singularity. New simulation techniques and computer code were required to handle these extreme shapes.
"The better we get at simulating Einstein's theory of gravity in higher dimensions, the easier it will be for us to help with advancing new computational techniques - we're pushing the limits of what you can do on a computer when it comes to Einstein's theory," said Tunyasuvunakool. "But if cosmic censorship doesn't hold in higher dimensions, then maybe we need to look at what's so special about a four-dimensional universe that means it does hold."
The cosmic censorship conjecture is widely expected to be true in our four-dimensional universe, but should it be disproved, an alternative way of explaining the universe would then need to be identified. One possibility is quantum gravity, which approximates Einstein's equations far away from a singularity, but also provides a description of new physics close to the singularity.
The COSMOS supercomputer at the University of Cambridge is part of the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) DiRAC HPC Facility.
Scientists have discovered something truly remarkable above the Earth’s atmosphere. An invisible shield is located approximately 7,200 miles above Earth that scientists are likening to “force fields on Star Trek.”
According to Front Line Desk, the shield was discovered in the Van Allen radiation belts, two doughnut-shaped rings above Earth that are filled with high-energy electrons and protons. Held in place by Earth’s magnetic field, the Van Allen radiation belts swell and shrink in response to incoming energy disturbances from the sun. The Van Allen radiation belts were first discovered back in 1958. However, scientists only discovered two belts, an inner and outer belt extending up to 25,000 miles above Earth’s surface.
WOW! Scientists Discover 'Invisible Shield' Around Earth, Baffled At How It Formed!
However, last year, Professor Daniel Baker from the University of Colorado Boulder and his team used the twin Van Allen Probes launched in 2012 to discover a third, transient ‘storage ring.’ According to their research, the third belt is located between the previously known inner and outer Van Allen radiation belts. This belt is different in that it seems to come and go as space weather changes.
The purpose of the ring was quite clear to the researchers — the ring is used to block killer electrons from entering deeper into the Earth’s atmosphere. These electrons can be extremely devastating at their near-light speed and have been known to threaten astronauts, fry satellites and damage space systems.
Beta Wired notes that Baker likened the invisible shield to Star Trek force fields. The Earth’s magnetic field holds the belts in place, but the scientist says that the electrons in these belts — which travel at nearly the speed of light — are being blocked by some invisible force that reminded him of the kind of shields used in television series like Star Trek to stop alien energy weapons from vaporizing starships. However, in the case of Earth, the invisible shield is being used to stop killer electrons from entering the atmosphere.
Prior to the invisible shield discovery, scientists assumed that electrons making it into the upper atmosphere of the planet would be dispersed by air molecules, but it looks like these particles don’t even get that far thanks to Earth’s invisible electron shield.
Now that the scientists know the invisible shield exists, they are trying to determine how it was formed and exactly how it works.
“It’s almost like these electrons are running into a glass wall in space. It’s an extremely puzzling phenomenon.”
The 2 Most Dangerous Numbers in The Universe are Threatening the End of Physics
CERN has stated that the LHCb experiment had discovered the presence of two new baryon subatomic particles. A deeply worrying and controversial line of thinking has emerged within the physics community. It's the idea that we are reaching the utter limit of what we can understand about the world around us through science. "The next few years may tell us whether we'll be capable of continuing to increase our understanding of nature or whether maybe, for the first time in the history of science, we could be facing questions that we cannot answer," Harry Cliff, a particle physicist at the European Organization for Nuclear Research — better known as CERN — said in a latest TED talk in Geneva, Switzerland.
Equally scary is the reason for this imminent limit, which Cliff says is because "the laws of physics forbid it." At the core of Cliff's argument are what he calls the two most dangerous numbers in the cosmos. These numbers are accountable for all the matter, structure, and life that we witness across the cosmos. And if these two numbers were even somewhat different, says Cliff, the cosmos would be an empty, lifeless place.
Dangerous No. 1: The strength of the Higgs field
The first dangerous number on Cliff's list is a value that signifies the strength of what physicists call the Higgs field, an unseen energy field not completely unlike other magnetic fields that permeates the cosmos. As particles swim through the Higgs field, they gain mass to ultimately become the protons, neutrons, and electrons comprising all of the atoms that make up you, me, and everything we see around us. Without it, we wouldn't be here. We know with near certainty that the Higgs field exists because of a revolutionary finding in 2012, when CERN physicists discovered a new elementary particle called the Higgs boson. According to theory, you can't have a Higgs boson without a Higgs field. But there's something enigmatic about the Higgs field that continues to perturb physicists like Cliff. According to Einstein's theory of general relativity and the theory of quantum mechanics — the two theories in physics that drive our understanding of the cosmos on incredibly large and extremely small scales — the Higgs field should be performing one of two tasks, says Cliff. Either it should be turned off, meaning it would have a strength value of zero and wouldn't be working to give particles mass, or it should be turned on, and, as the theory goes, this "on value" is "absolutely enormous," Cliff says. But neither of those two scenarios are what physicists observe. "In reality, the Higgs field is just slightly on," says Cliff. "It's not zero, but it's ten-thousand-trillion times weaker than it's fully on value — a bit like a light switch that got stuck just before the 'off' position. And this value is crucial. If it were a tiny bit different, then there would be no physical structure in the universe." Why the strength of the Higgs field is so absurdly weak defies understanding. Physicists hope to find an answer to this question by discovering brand-new particles at the recently upgraded particle accelerator at CERN. So far, though, they're still hunting.
Dangerous No. 2: The strength of dark energy
The distribution of dark matter is shown in blue and the gas distribution in orange. This simulation is for the present state of the cosmos and is centered on a massive galaxy cluster. The area shown is approximately 300 million light-years across. Cliff's second dangerous number doubles as what physicists have called "the worst theoretical prediction in the history of physics." This dangerous number deals in the depths of deep space and a mind-meltingly complex phenomenon called dark energy. Dark energy, a repulsive force that's accountable for the accelerating expansion of our universe, was first measured in 1998. Still, "we don't know what dark energy is," Cliff admits. "But the best idea is that it's the energy of empty space itself — the energy of the vacuum." If this is true, you should be capable of summing up all the energy of empty space to get a value demonstrating the strength of dark energy. And though theoretical physicists have done so, there's one gigantic problem with their answer: "Dark energy should be 10120 times stronger than the value we detect from astronomy," Cliff said. "This is a number so mind-bogglingly enormous that it's impossible to get your head around ... this number is greater than any number in astronomy — it's a thousand-trillion-trillion-trillion times bigger than the number of atoms in the cosmos. That's a pretty bad prediction." On the bright side, we're lucky that dark energy is smaller than theorists forecast. If it followed our theoretical models, then the repulsive force of dark energy would be so enormous that it would literally rip our universe apart. The fundamental forces that bind atoms together would be powerless against it and nothing could ever form — galaxies, stars, planets, and life as we know it would not exist. On the other hand, it's tremendously frustrating that we can't use our present theories of the cosmos to develop a better measurement of dark energy that agrees with existing observations. Even better than improving our theories would be to find a way that we can understand why the strength of dark energy and the Higgs field is what it is.
Getting answers could be impossible
Cliff said there is one likely way to get some answers, but we might never have the ability to prove it. If we could somehow confirm that our cosmos is just one in a vast multiverse of billions of other cosmoses, then "suddenly we can understand the weirdly fine-tuned values of these two dangerous numbers [because] in most of the multiverse dark energy is so strong that the cosmos gets torn apart, or the Higgs field is so weak that no atoms can form," Cliff said. To prove this, physicists need to find new particles that would uphold drastic theories like string theory, which predicts the presence of a multiverse. Right now, there's only one place in the world that could perhaps produce these particles, if they exist, and that's the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. And physicists only have two to three years before CERN shuts the LHC down for upgrades. If we haven't found anything by then, Cliff said, it could signal the beginning of the end.
"We may be entering a new era in physics. An era where there are weird features in the universe that we cannot explain. An era where we have hints that we live in a multiverse that lies frustratingly beyond our reach. An era where we will never be able to answer the question why is there something rather than nothing."
Apollo 10 astronauts reported hearing odd 'music' on far side of moon
Gene Cernan was the lunar module pilot on Apollo 10 and later commanded Apollo 17. (NASA)
The astronauts who flew the dress rehearsal for the first lunar landing reported hearing mysterious “outer space-type music” while flying behind the moon in May 1969.
The case of the odd, unexplained whistling noise is uncovered during an upcoming episode of the Science Channel series, “NASA’s Unexplained Files.”The episode focuses on a strange event experienced by the crew members of Apollo 10, a mission which flew to the moon, entered lunar orbit and got within 5,000 feet of the moon’s surface in preparation for Apollo 11’s historic flight two months later.
The Apollo 10 astronauts – Tom Stafford, John Young and Eugene Cernan – can be heard on recordings from the flight talking about the strange sound, and whether to tell NASA about it.
“It sounds like, you know, outer space-type music,” one of the astronauts says.
“Shall we tell [NASA] about it?” an astronaut asks.
“I don’t know,” another replies. “We ought to think about it.”
There’s no record of the astronauts discussing the noise with NASA or with the public. It’s unclear if the astronauts ever heard the noise on subsequent passes on the far side of the moon or if other astronauts on subsequent missions heard the sound. Young eventually flew back to the moon and walked on it as the commander of Apollo 16. Cernan commanded the Apollo 17 mission and was the last man to walk on the moon. Stafford flew in space again, but never journeyed back to the moon.
The May 1969 tapes were recorded while Stafford, Young and Cernan were on the far side of the moon, out of radio communication with Earth. The whistling sound lasted nearly the entire hour the astronauts were out of touch. Later, the recordings were sent back to Mission Control where they were transcribed, archived and classified, per protocol.
The conversation was eventually unearthed in 2008.
Some technicians have speculated the sound may have originated from interference from VHF radios on the command module and lunar module interacting with each other, according to researcher and author Andrew Chaikin.
But not everyone buys that explanation.
“The Apollo 10 crew is very used to the kind of noise that they should be hearing,” Apollo 15 Command Module Pilot Al Worden said in a clip from the episode. “Logic tells me that if there was something recorded on there, then there was something there.”
To Make a Moon Village, Think Beyond Science and Engineering (Op-Ed)
By Tomoya Mori, Brown University
The European Space Agency has been looking at what it takes to construct a moon outpost.
Credit: ESA/ Foster + Partners
Tomoya Mori is a senior at Brown University pursuing interdisciplinary studies in space exploration, multimedia and education. He is a co-founder at Metaplaneta, a creative think tank that investigates a multidisciplinary approach to space. He contributed this article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.
"Been there, done that." President Barack Obama famously used that line to help shift the world's attention from the moon to Mars as a space destination in recent years, though the debate on where to go next continues. But whether humanity wants to colonize the moon or terraform Mars, establishing a settlement on other celestial bodies is a challenge of immense scale.
So a more important question to ask is this: What does it take to establish a permanent human presence outside of Earth?
Beyond the usual suspects
This question presents a great diversity of challenges that transcend disciplines. It goes beyond the realm of science and engineering, the two fields often considered the core of space exploration, and include politics, law, architecture, business and design. Extending a human presence beyond the planet will depend on diversifying the space community to include broader interests and perspectives.
Already, a number of institutions collectively foster a multidisciplinary environment within the space industry. The Sasakawa International Center for Space Architecture (SICSA) in the University of Houston offers the world's only master of science program in space architecture. Other institutions educate students about space law and policy, including the George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs in Washington, D.C., and Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy in Houston.
These unique programs equip their students with specialized knowledge and skills for the field of space travel. The real value, however, is in bringing new perspectives to the ever-growing space industry. [Moon Base Visions: How to Build a Lunar Colony (Photos )]
Currently, most of those disciplines are functionally independent. Rarely do politicians talk about the architecture of space vehicles, or scientists talk about the potential of space business. But in reality, those fields are so intertwined that interdisciplinary fusion can be a real game-changer.
The space industry should focus not merely on diversification, but also on the process by which diverse disciplines interact. It is time to take a more transparent, integrative and interdisciplinary approach to space exploration.
One method for integrating disciplines, called the integrated design approach (IDA), has proven effective in sustainable design and could provide the same benefits for space.
Lessons from an HVAC
Traditionally, designers have used a linear process to construct sustainable buildings. Architects make sketches and pass them on to the engineers, who evaluate the designs and then assign subcontractors, and so on. However, with that approach, time and money are already running out by the time conflicts and problems arise.
IDA is successful because it involves all project members from the beginning, allowing them to identify and resolve potential conflicts earlier in the process. And the multidisciplinary environment forces project members to think outside their immediate areas of expertise, inspiring innovative solutions to problems and generally producing more energy-efficient and cost-effective results.
For example, in the book "Integrative Design Guide to Green Building" (John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2009), the authors present real-life situations in which IDA led to a surprisingly efficient outcome. The book was written by 7group, a multidisciplinary team dedicated to sustainability and regeneration, and Bill Reed, a proponent and practitioner of sustainability and regeneration.
In the example, a team of architects, landscape designers and engineers was determining the placement of an HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning) system in an office building, and the architect asked the mechanical engineer to provide an answer. The engineer was stunned, at first. Even though he had more than 20 years of experience designing HVAC systems, never in his life had anyone asked him where to locate one. After a few minutes, he provided a solution that turned out to be extremely efficient and cost-effective. Instead of placing the necessary mechanical room on the roof, which the architects had done in the last project, the engineer proposed placing heat-pump units on the ground floor of the building. Not only did this solution reduce the piping work and save $40,000 in construction costs, it also led to simplified maintenance and significant operational savings.
From that experience, the team realized the importance of questioning assumptions. All components of a building are interdependent, and therefore everyone's input should be respected — not only individuals within one's own area of expertise, but also everyone else in a team.
Innovative solutions or strategies often come from unexpected sources, and in this example, the multidisciplinary environment was critical to promoting openness and stimulating everyone's creativity.
In this artist's rendering, a 3D printing robot pours layer after layer of hardened lunar dirt and dust onto an inflatable dome shell, 3D printing a lunar base.
Credit: ESA/Foster + Partners
Finding transparency (literally)
The work of Danish architects in the Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) provides another illustration. In 2009, the Urban Planning Department of Tallinn, Estonia, and the Union of Estonian Architects held an international competition for a new town hall in in Tallinn. Throughout the design process, the BIG architects received input from the jury about the citizens’ needs and take into account of the city’s governance system. The design had to be flexible and accommodate unexpected demands.
The BIG group's solution was simple yet quite novel; it was to increase the transparency between the citizens and politicians, to improve governance and the town's participatory democracy.
The BIG town hall design has myriad glass windows and an open structure, offering the politicians daylight and a view of the city marketplace, and offering the town's citizens a chance to see their elected officials at work.
Although the mayor of Tallinn had expressed his hope to build a new city hall, the proposal still remains a mere design, albeit one that shows the effectiveness of integrated design. Here, the architects not only provided a great working space for politicians, but also unified the city as a whole.
Space habitation is not just space travel
Space infrastructures are, in essence, organic systems. They need to be more self-sustaining than any regenerative and sustainable green buildings on Earth. And because of the constrained living conditions they present, such buildings must include input from the astronauts and travelers who might use them, and the input from a range of designers, engineers and others.
For example, the habitation modules of the International Space Station must address energy and thermal balance, waste management, mechanical structure, and architecture, in addition to comfort and privacy, among other factors.
The Habitation Design Center in NASA's Johnson Space Center often invites astronauts as consultants to improve module designs and make them more human-centered. It may seem obvious, but it is crucial that space vehicles be designed with feedback from astronauts, instead of becoming function-based machines like fighter planes. Rarely does one see inhabitants involved in the design process of an Earth-bound structure.
For missions, like space colonization, of a larger scale, the IDA approach is even more necessary. Settling on a celestial body is far different from simply going there. To establish a sustainable living space in such a hostile environment, one needs to not only think about science and engineering, but also consider psychological, architectural, societal, political and economic aspects.
Moon Master: An Easy Quiz for Lunatics
For most of human history, the moon was largely a mystery. It spawned awe and fear and to this day is the source of myth and legend. But today we know a lot about our favorite natural satellite. Do you?
Targeting the moon
Today, many of the world's space agencies have expressed interest in sending humans to the moon. Johann-Dietrich Woerner, the director general of the European Space Agency (ESA), has been pushing his vision to establish a moon village. Although the agency has yet to officially approve that plan, his message has gone global.
Despite the hint of novelty it carries, the concept of lunar colonization existed long before the Apollo era. Numerous books and papers have presented promising plans for a lunar colony, but none have been realized, or even attempted. One of the fundamental obstacles is financial. Even if the moon village concept succeeded, most taxpayers would not understand why it was worth the cost.
And yet, the moon has the potential to help humanity grow as a species. A lunar colony could be a model for a sustainable ecosystem, a testing ground to strengthen international collaboration, a giant laboratory for cutting-edge scientific experiments and technological innovation, a platform for new businesses, a stepping-stone for further exploration of the solar system, and a mental exercise for challenging norms.
But if humanity is to establish a lunar colony, the world must employ IDA, involving all key players at the start.
Space horizons 2016: international city on the moon
Over the weekend of Feb. 19 to 21, Brown University in Rhode Island will host Space Horizons 2016, a student-focused, three-day integrative workshop that brings students and professionals from all disciplines to conceptualize an international lunar city.
The event will consist of four workshops — Politics, Infrastructure, Science, and Business & Technology — that will ask several questions: What would politically motivate participating countries? What is the economic value of a lunar city, and what commercial opportunities can sustain the lunar economy? What new experiments would emerge on a lunar base, and how would they help humanity live on the moon and beyond? What infrastructure is required to sustain a lunar ecosystem?
Through the integrated-design approach, participants will be encouraged to think beyond their immediate expertise, and to recognize the connections between their skills and the space industry, making space more tangible to everybody. Each workshop will have experienced mentors and professionals, including representatives from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), the Lunar and Planetary Institute, PoliSpace, Sasakawa International Center for Space Architecture, Masten Space Systems, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Brown University, Yale University in New Jersey, the University of Central Florida and the Rhode Island School of Design. Ultimately, the findings may lead to a joint project or publication.
But Space Horizons 2016 is not the first to take on the moon village concept. At the end of last year, ESA European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) hosted "The Moon Village Workshop", which took place in conjunction with International Symposium on Moon 2020-2030. The workshop invited professionals and students from all over the world to discuss and propose ideas to consolidate visions for the moon village concept. The participants were split into three groups: Moon Habitat Design, Science and Technology Potential in the Moon Village, and Engaging Stakeholders.
The three working groups came up with several recommended actions to be taken by the director general of ESA, including the design and operations of a moon-base simulation at the European Astronaut Centre and the engagement of the most direct stakeholders, such as media, national governments and citizens, at the next ESA Ministerial Council Meeting.
It takes time for educational strategies to prove their effectiveness. And as long as the moon village concept remains a vision, it will be challenging to involve people from nonspace industries, especially in an era in which the space industry is generally considered exclusive to rocket scientists.
However, the future of space exploration is in widening the community. Most innovative ideas are the products of interdisciplinary fusions. Just as much as technological advancements will accelerate space exploration, broader interests and perspectives will also catalyze the process of establishing space colonies. The integrated-design approach has the potential to not only open up new perspectives, but also offer a younger generation an opportunity to design the future of space exploration and radically change humanity's perception of space. It is those people who will advance society into the universe.
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The real life X Files: CIA release former top secret documents about 'alien UFOs landing on earth'
FORMER secret documents detailing a series of strange encounters with UFOs and aliens have been released by the CIA.
The previously unseen files date back to the 1950s
The files, which date back to the 1950s, contain extraordinary witness accounts of extraterrestrials landing on earth.
One document from 1952 is a sworn testimony by former mayor of German town Gleimershausen, Oscar Linke.
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One document from 1952 is a sworn testimony by Oscar Linke, former mayor of German town Gleimershausen CIA
He told how he and 11-year-old daughter Gabriella came into contact with two men in "shiny metallic clothing" and a large object resembling "a huge frying pan".
He described how one of the men had a "lamp" on the front part of his body which "lit up at regular intervals".
In the document Linke recounted the moment his daughter called on him from several metres behind which disturbed the two men.
He said the strange pair then climbed into the object which turned from green to red and began to "glitter" and "hum".
It then reportedly began to "rise slowly from the ground and rotate like a toy" before it disappeared "over the heights and forests".
Linke admitted he would have thought he and his daughter were "dreaming" if not for what happened next.
He explained: "When the object had disappeared, I went to the place where it had been.
"I found a circular opening in the ground and it was quite evident that it was freshly dug."
The file contains accounts from several others living in the area at the time who also reported seeing a similar comet-like object.
Another document from the same year tells of "two fiery disks" sighted in the southern part of the Belgian Congo in the Elisabethville district, now known as Lubumbashi.
According to the report, the disks "glided in elegant curves and changed their position many times" giving off a "penetrating hissing and buzzing sound".
Airman Commander Pierre attempted to pursue the objects in a fighter plane and came within around 120m of one of the discs.
Commander Pierre came within around 120m of one of the discs
Pierre sketched an outline of what he saw
He described the outer rim of the UFO as "veiled in fire" with "an enormous speed of rotation".
The account explained: "Pierre did not regard it possible that the disc could be manned, since the irregular speed as well as the heat wiuld make it impossible for a person to stay inside the stable core."
He estimated their speed to be around 900mph.
One more report from May of 1952 tells of a mysterious flying object emitting flashing light over Barcelona.
The journalist who spotted it, Valentin Garcia, said: "The newspaper office was soon flooded with telephone calls from people who had seen the object."
The following month other witness accounts describe similar incidents over Meknes, Taourirt and Casblanca in Morocco and Algiers in Tunisia.
REAL LIFE X FILES: Once top secret documents reveal a catalogue of unbelievable UFO sightings
The declassified documents detail a catalogue of mysterious encounters with flying saucers and aliens.
In reports going back decades, stunned witnesses describe strange crafts moving at speed through the skies.
Others mention meetings with shadowy figures or bizarre recordings of noises in space.
And if they’re to be believed, the accounts are more incredible than the supposed alien crash at Roswell.
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NOT OF THIS WORLD: Oskar Linke's story about encountering a UFO was among those held by the CIA
“I would have thought that both my daughter and I were dreaming”
Oskar Linke
A file from 1952 gives the sworn testimony of Oskar Linke, the former mayor of Gleimershausen in Germany.
He describes how he spotted two men in “shiny metallic clothing” – one of them with a glowing lamp on his body.
Next to them was a large object "like a huge frying pan" which – when Oskar’s daughter called out to him – they climbed into.
"The object rose to a horizontal position,” he said, “turned toward a neighbouring town, and then disappeared over the heights and forests."
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STUNNED: Oskar said it felt like he and his daughter Gabriella were dreaming
He added: "I would have thought that both my daughter and I were dreaming if it were not for the following element involved.
"When the object had disappeared, I went to the place where it had been.
"I found a circular opening in the ground and it was quite evident that it was freshly dug."
The file notes how many others living in the same area later related to seeing a comet-like object at the time.
Another file from that year describes two "fiery disks" seen lurking over a uranium mine in what was then the Belgian Congo.
Both glided in “elegant curves” said an eyewitness, before coming to a stop mid-air and taking off in a zig-zag fashion.
Commander Pierre, who flew after them from an airfield in Elisabethville - today called Lubumbashi, sketched them.
And the airman – who is described as a "dependable officer" – predicted their speed to be approximately 900mph.
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CLOSE ENCOUNTER: Commander Pierre even sketched the UFO he saw, inset
One more account from May of that year describes a strange object soaring over Barcelona emitting flashes of light.
The journalist who saw it, Valentin Garcia, said: "The newspaper office was soon flooded with telephone calls from people who had seen the object."
Further sightings from different witnesses the following month describe similar encounters over Algiers in Tunisia, and Meknes, Taourirt and Casblanca in Morocco.
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COINCIDENCE: This file recorded several similar sightings in Spain, Tunisia and Morocco
Daily Star Online contacted leading UFO sceptic Robert Sheaffer to try and secure a scientific explanation for the declassified files.
He said: "If you go through old newspapers and UFO books, you will find numerous sensational sightings of landed saucers, little men, etc.
"And none of them have ever resulted in anything beyond the original account."
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"No evidence, no follow-up, in more than 60 years," he added. "No clear photos have turned up, and no artifacts."
Mr Sheaffer, author of Bad UFOs, added "We understand much more clearly than we did 60 years ago what is wrong with uncritically accepting human recollections as being accurate."
But what do you think? Perhaps we’ll never know. Or perhaps the truth is out there.
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Nederlander filmt planeten naast zon vanuit vliegtuig ( VIDEO )
Vorige week publiceerden wij een artikel met daarin opnamen van twee planeten nabij de zon genomen vanuit een vliegtuig en die na onderzoek echt bleken te zijn.
Afgelopen zaterdag vloog er een landgenoot van Innsbruck in Oostenrijk naar Rotterdam en ook hij zag en filmde een aantal planeten rondom de zon.
Alleen al in dit nog prille jaar zijn er inmiddels talloze opnames gemaakt van één of meerdere planeten zichtbaar naast en rondom de zon.
Uiteraard zullen een aantal van die opnames verklaard kunnen worden als lens flares of bekende hemellichamen zoals de planeet Venus, maar een fiks aantal kan ook niet op die manier verklaard worden.
Zo hadden we vorige week een artikel over een Duitser die tijdens een vlucht van Zürich naar Hamburg een aantal planeten filmde vanuit een vliegtuig. Deze opname is door de onderzoeker Marshall Masters bestudeerd en hij komt tot de conclusie dat deze opname echt is en zich daar wel degelijk een aantal planeten bevinden.
Nu kregen wij een aantal filmopnames toegestuurd van een lezer die afgelopen zaterdag van Innsbruck naar Rotterdam vloog.
Ook daarop zijn meerdere planeten waar te nemen naast de zon. De lens flare in het beeld beweegt en verplaatst/verdwijnt terwijl de "tweede zon" op positie blijft.
Het volgende is wat de lezer schrijft:
Volg al geruime tijd jullie website bedankt voor alle info.
Vanmorgen een vlucht gehad vanaf Innsbruck - Rotterdam en daarbij meerdere planeten gezien rond de zon en ze gefilmd. Heb een klein stukje mee gestuurd.
Na het stijgen kregen we de zon in de rug en lukte het niet meer.
Later op de vlucht nog wel wat beelden die heb ik eventueel ook met 2 zichtbaar rond de zon.
Als wij het bericht goed hebben begrepen is de eerste video gefilmd toen hij direct zicht op de zon had en de andere twee door de telefoon omhoog te houden richting zon.
Bij het eerste filmpje van gisteren had ik wel zicht op de zon. Had me gepolariseerde zonnebril op gedaan. En daar zag ik die ervoor en erachter. Die rechter volgens mij niet maar het ging allemaal erg snel. Mijn telefoon geeft Barwies aan als locatie om 09:55. We gingen om 09.50 de lucht in.
Mysterieuze 150 kilometer lange muur in Jordanië stelt archeologen voor raadsel
Een 150 kilometer lange muur in Jordanië stelt archeologen voor een raadsel. Niemand weet wanneer of door wie de muur is gebouwd of wat het doel van de muur was.
De muur, die bekend staat als Khatt Shebib, werd in 1948 ontdekt door Sir Alec Kirkbridge, een Britse diplomaat in Jordanië. Vanuit het vliegtuig zag hij een stenen muur die door het land liep.
Torens
Archeologen hebben de resten van de muur onderzocht aan de hand van luchtfoto’s. Ze ontdekten dat de muur zich uitstrekt over een afstand van 106 kilometer. “Als de resten van een parallelle muur worden meegerekend is de muur in totaal 150 kilometer lang,” zei Rebecca Banks van de Oxford-universiteit in het Zeitschrift für Orient-Archäologie.
De muur is ongeveer een meter hoog en een halve meter breed. De archeologen hebben ook resten gevonden van zo’n 100 torens met een doorsnee van twee tot vier meter. Sommige torens zijn later pas gebouwd, aldus de onderzoekers.
Aardewerk
Archeologen hebben geen idee wanneer of door wie de muur is gebouwd en waarom. Op basis van aardewerk dat in de torens is gevonden, kunnen de onderzoekers zeggen dat de muur waarschijnlijk ergens tussen 312 voor Christus en 750 na Christus is gebouwd.
Er is meer onderzoek nodig om alle mysteries rond de muur op te lossen. Luchtfoto’s zullen geen antwoord geven op de belangrijkste vragen en daarom zal er veldwerk moeten worden verricht.
Apollo-astronauten hoorden onverklaarbare muziek aan achterkant van de maan
In 1969 bereikte Apollo 10 de maan. Het ruimtetuig vloog ook langs de achterkant van de maan, waar radiocontact met de aarde niet mogelijk is. Alles ging volgens plan. Althans, dat dacht men lange tijd.
Na bijna 40 jaar kwamen opnames naar buiten waaruit bleek dat de drie astronauten boven de achterkant van de maan iets vreemds hebben meegemaakt. Op de opnames is vreemde ruimtemuziek te horen via de radio van de Apollo, schrijft de Huffington Post.
De ruimtevaarders werden geconfronteerd met een geluid dat ze niet konden plaatsen en zelf een soort kosmische ruimtemuziek noemden.
De drie astronauten gaven aan dat ze geluiden hoorden die ze nog nooit eerder hadden gehoord. “Het klinkt als een soort kosmische ruimtemuziek. Hoor je dat? Dat fluitende geluid? Whoooooo! Dat is zeker rare muziek!”
De onverklaarbare muziek was ongeveer een uur te horen. De astronauten waren zo opgeschrikt door de kosmische klanken dat ze twijfelden om hun ervaring met de ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA te delen.
Vlak voordat het radiocontact met Houston weer mogelijk werd overwogen Thomas Stafford, John Young en Eugene Cernan om het aan Mission Control te melden. “Het is ongelooflijk! Zullen we het hen vertellen? Ik weet het niet. We moeten erover nadenken.”
“De logica vertelt me dat als er daar iets is opgenomen, er daar ook echt iets was,” zegt astronaut Alfred Worden. “De NASA hield informatie achter als ze dacht dat dat in het belang van het publiek was.”
De transcripties van de gesprekken van de astronauten kregen na de missie het stempel ‘vertrouwelijk’ en verdwenen in de NASA-archieven. Waar de vreemde ruimtemuziek vandaan kwam, is nooit duidelijk geworden.
Here’s one interesting footage of an unidentified flying object that was hovering in the daytime sky above Calapan City in Philippines. This was seen and recorded on 15th January 2016.
Witness report:Unknown Object hovering fading in and out, changing shape and disappearing Video by my girlfriend sometime around the middle of the month of Jan. 2016 and in middle of the day. She took the kids to the beach as she usually does a few times a week when she noticed this object. She brought the cam recorder because she has spotted the object around the same area roughly once a month. She also stated that when it appears its always if front of the sun. I was not present but watching the video it seems to change shape or reflect/absorb light. I also noticed what I think looks like a thin red line maybe a light across the object?
Here’s a new video of a bright ball of light in the sky above Euless, Texas. This was taken on 17th February 2016.
What do you think about this footage? Just a meteor or something else?
Witness report:Cool video I captured with my dashcam of a really close meteor. I witnessed a similar incident higher up in the sky 2 days before this… Interesting happening, glad I was driving by at the right moment. This was on 183 Westbound in the Euless area.
Gravitational Waves: What Their Discovery Means for Science and Humanity
By Calla Cofield, Space.com Staff Writer
A computer simulation showing gravitational waves during a black-hole collision. The discovery has major implications for science.
Credit: MPI for Gravitational Physics/W.Benger-Zib
People around the world cheered yesterday morning (Feb. 11) when scientists announced the first direct detection of gravitational waves — ripples in the fabric of space-time whose existence was first proposed by Albert Einstein, in 1916.
The waves came from two black holes circling each other, closer and closer, until they finally collided. The recently upgraded Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) captured the signal on Sept. 14, 2015. Not every scientific discovery gets this kind of reception, so what exactly is all the hype about, and what's next for LIGO now that it has spotted these elusive waves?
First of all, detecting two colliding black holes is thrilling by itself — no one knew for sure if black holes actually merged together to create even more-massive black holes, but now there's physical proof. And there's the joy of finally having direct evidence for a phenomenon that was first predicted 100 years ago, using an instrument that was proposed 40 years ago. [Gravitational Waves Detected by LIGO: Complete Coverage]
But what is truly monumental about this detection is that it gives humanity the ability to see the universe in a totally new way, scientists said. The ability to directly detect gravitational waves — which are generated by the acceleration or deceleration of massive objects in space — has been compared to a deaf person suddenly gaining the ability to hear sound. An entirely new realm of information is now available.
"It's like Galileo pointing the telescope for the first time at the sky," LIGO team member Vassiliki (Vicky) Kalogera, a professor of physics and astronomy at Northwestern University in Illinois, told Space.com. "You're opening your eyes — in this case, our ears — to a new set of signals from the universe that our previous technologies did not allow us to receive, study and learn from."
"Up until now, we've been deaf to gravitational waves," LIGO Executive Director David Reitze, of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), said during an announcement ceremony in Washington, D.C. "What's going to come now is we're going to hear more things, and no doubt we'll hear things that we expected to hear … but we will also hear things that we never expected."
With this new sensory view of the universe, here are some of the things scientists hope to discover.
Dark matter, dark energy: ESA and CERN set to unravel mysteries of the cosmos
LIGO is particularly sensitive to gravitational waves that come from violent cosmic events, such as two massive objects colliding or a star exploding. The observatory has the potential to locate these objects or events before light-based telescopes can do so, and in some cases, gravitational-wave observations could be the only way to find and study such events.
For example, in yesterday's announcement, scientists reported that LIGO had identified two black holes spinning around each other and merging together in a final, energetic collision. As their name suggests, black holes don't radiate light, which means they are invisible to telescopes that collect and study electromagnetic radiation. Some black holes are visible with light-based telescopes, because material in their immediate vicinity radiates, but scientists haven't seen examples of merging black holes with radiating material around them.
In addition, the black holes spotted by LIGO are 29 and 36 times the mass of the sun, respectively. But Reitze said that as LIGO's sensitivity continues to improve, the instrument could be sensitive to black holes that are 100, 200 or even 500 times the mass of the sun that are further away from Earth. "There could be a really nice discovery space that opens up once we get out there," he said.
Scientists already know that studying the sky in different wavelengths of light can reveal new data about the cosmos. For many centuries, astronomers could only work with optical light. But relatively recently, researchers built instruments allowing them to study the universe using X-rays, radio waves, ultraviolet waves and gamma-rays. Each time, scientists got a new view of the universe.
"If we're ever lucky enough to have a supernova in our own galaxy, or maybe in a nearby galaxy, we will be able to look at the actual dynamics of what goes on inside the supernova," said LIGO co-founder Rainer Weiss of MIT, who spoke at the announcement ceremony. While light is often blocked by dust and gas, "gravitational waves come right out [of the supernova], boldly unimpeded," Weiss said. "As a consequence, you really find out what's going on inside of these things."
Other exotic objects scientists hope to study with gravitational waves are neutron stars, which are mind-bogglingly dense, burned-out stellar corpses: A teaspoon of neutron-star material would weigh about a billion tons on Earth. Scientists aren't sure what happens to regular matter under such extreme conditions, but gravitational waves could provide extremely helpful clues, because these waves should carry information about the interior of the neutron star all the way to Earth, LIGO scientists said.
LIGO also has a system set up to alert light-based telescopes when the detector seems to have spotted a gravitational wave. Some of the astronomical events that LIGO will study, such as colliding neutron stars, may produce light in all wavelengths, from gamma-rays to radio waves. With LIGO's alert system in place, it's possible that scientists could observe some astronomical events or objects in various wavelengths of light, plus gravitational waves, which would provide a "very complete picture" of those events, Reitze said.
"When that happens, that'll be, I think, the next big thing in this field," he said.
Relativity
Gravitational waves were first predicted by Einstein's theory of general relativity, which was published in 1916. That famous theory has stood up to all kinds of physical tests, but there are some aspects that scientists haven't been able to study in the real world, because they require very extreme circumstances. The extreme warping of space-time is one example of this.
"Until now, we have only seen warped space-time when it is very calm — as though we had only seen the surface of the ocean on a very calm day, when it's quite glassy," Kip Thorne of Caltech, another founding member of LIGO and an expert on warped space-time, said at yesterday's ceremony. "We had never seen the ocean roiled in a storm, with crashing waves. All that changed on Sept. 14. The colliding black holes that produced these gravitational waves created a violent storm in the fabric of space and time." [The History & Structure of the Universe (Infographic)]
"This observation tests that regime beautifully, very strongly," Thorne continued. "And Einstein comes out with beaming success."
But the study of general relativity via gravitational waves is far from over. Questions remain about the nature of the graviton, the particle believed to carry the gravitational force (just like the photon is the particle that carries the electromagnetic force). And scientists have many questions about the inner workings of black holes, which gravitational waves may help illuminate (so to speak). But all of that, the scientists said, will be revealed slowly, over the course of many years, as LIGO and related instruments collect more data on more events.
Looking toward the next three years, Reitze said the collaboration is focused on increasing LIGO's sensitivity to its full potential. This will make the observatory — which consists of two big detectors, one in Louisiana and the other in Washington state — more sensitive to gravitational waves. But scientists don't know how many events LIGO will see, because they don't know how often many of these events occur in the universe.
LIGO detected the binary black hole merger even before the instrument began its first official observation campaign after its recent upgrade, but it's possible that this was a lucky break. To get the gravitational astronomy train rolling, LIGO simply needs more data.
When asked to comment on LIGO's impact on the world beyond the scientific community, and about how gravitational-wave science might influence people's daily lives, Reitze simply said, "Who knows?"
"When Einstein predicted general relativity, who would have predicted that we'd use it every day when we use our cellphones?" he said. (General relativity provides an understanding how gravity influences the passing of time, and this information is necessary for GPS technology, which uses satellites that orbit further away from the gravitational pull of the Earth than people on the surface).
LIGO is "the most sensitive instrument ever built," said Reitze, and the technological advances that have been made while building the observatory may feed into technologies that will be used in ways people can't yet predict.
Thorne said he sees the larger contribution of LIGO slightly differently.
"When we look back on the era of the Renaissance, and we ask ourselves, 'What did the humans of that era give to us that's important to us today?' I think we would all agree it's great art, great architecture, great music," he said.
"Similarly, when our descendants look back on this era, and they ask themselves, 'What great things came to us?' … I believe there will be an understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe and an understanding of what those laws do in the universe, and an exploration of the universe," Thorne added. "LIGO is a big part of that. The rest of astronomy is a big part of that. And I think that cultural gift to our future generations is really much bigger than any kind of technological spin-off, than the ultimate development of technology of any kind. I think we should be proud of what we give to our descendants culturally."
Another reminder of space being a creepy place has been presented in the lost Apollo 10 tapes – the mission that circled over to the dark side of the Moon. The tapes contain strange ‘music’ that was received out of Earth’s signal reach.
The mission happened in May just ahead of Apollo 11’s 1969 moon landing two months later. The recordings recovered from Apollo 10 were only declassified in 2008 and will now be played on the Science Channel’s Unexplained Files coming up later this month.
So, what was strange about those recordings? Besides the fact that they contained a very musical dance of frequencies and noise, it was the fact that they could not have come from any manmade source, as there’s no radio signal on the far side of the Moon. This means also that astronauts can’t talk to Earth and are effectively alone in outer space for the duration of their time there.
In 1969, two months before Neil Armstrong would set foot on the moon, Apollo 10 was cruising just above the lunar surface when the crew was surprised by a “whistling sound.” The three astronauts discuss the incident at length in the upcoming show.
Al Worden, astronaut with Apollo 15, explains: “There are recorders that record whatever’s going on the back side, and then you do a data dump when you come around the front side, and Houston or mission control then can see what happened when you were around the back side.”
The “music” transmission lasted for almost an hour, and had the crew talking about whether NASA needed to know at all what they had heard. “It’s unbelievable! You know?” they confess. Almost five decades later there is still no clue as to the source.
When the three eventually got back, they opted not to tell NASA, which could be a smart move, seeing as the agency could have had them remanded into custody and kept from flying because of concerns for their mental state.
The debate will rage on in the upcoming episode of ‘NASA’s Unexplained Files’, as scientists continue to discuss the more prominent theories: one possible one is that charged particles were interacting with a magnetic field, the way they did on Jupiter and Saturn. There’s of course one problem here: the Moon has no magnetic field or atmosphere of any kind.
So where did this broadcast originate from if it wasnt earth?
Dr. Micheal Salla has indicated that there is a Military Industrial Extraterrestrial Complex or MIEC, and that Earth is being assimilated by an alien agenda which also operates on Earth’s Moon.
The photo below is similar to many that I myself have seen. It appears that the Chinese who took the photo, have confirmed that aliens exist. The Chinese have probably been in contact with these aliens already.
That would explain why so many radio telescopes are searching for signals from aliens, and more being built as we speak, yet no reported signals from aliens were reported to the public.
The report stipulates:
“I was sent some pictures by a source who claims China will be releasing Hi Res images taken by the Chang’e-2 moon orbiter, which clearly show buildings and structures on the moon’s surface. He also claims NASA has deliberately bombed important areas of the Moon in an effort to destroy ancient artefacts and facility’s. Pictures yet to be released clearly show nuclear impact craters and building debris caused by explosions in an effort by NASA to destroy the truth. China is moving toward full disclosure of the Extraterrestrial reality, if these images and future ones are verified genuine then NASA should be investigated for fraud and treason. China will be releasing all the data and images from the Chang’e-2 in the coming weeks and months, lets hope this is the beginning of a new era.”
Have you ever wondered why we haven’t returned to the moon again? The truth is that NASA is hiding a very dark secret from us
Is there an “Alien Base” on the Moon? More and more people are coming forward with stories that might prove this is true. Rumors say that there is an Alien Moon Base on the far side of the moon, the side we never see from Earth.Did you ever wonder why the Moon landings stopped and why we have not tried to build a Moon Base? It does seem like a better and easier idea than a floating space station with no access to any raw materials or supplies? According to the NASA Astronaut Neil Armstrong the aliens have a base on the Moon and told us in no uncertain terms to get off and stay off the Moon!Sound far fetched? Milton Cooper, a Naval Intelligence Officer tells us that not only does the Alien Moon Base exist but the U.S. Naval Intelligence Community refers to the Alien Moon Base as “Luna,” that there is a huge mining operation going on there, and that is where the aliens keep their huge mother ships while the trips to Earth are made in smaller “flying saucers”.
LUNA: The Alien base on the far side of the Moon. It was seen and filmed by the Apollo astronauts. A base, a mining operation using very large machines, and the very large alien craft described in sighting reports as mother ships exist there. -Milton Cooper
But in the new video released by YouTube channel Section 51 2.0, the object which looks like a shrunken version of one of the most famous NASA thermal blanket images, is filmed from various angles following the ISS.The clip is entitled ‘ISS films the Black Knight Satellite UFO very close to Soyuz spacecraft – January 2016.’
YouTube channel Section 51 2.0 releases several alleged UFO videos of such good quality that it is repeatedly accused of broadcasting hoaxes which have been digitally-created.
It claims the new footage was leaked out of Russia after being filmed in January by the ISS’s own cameras very close to the Russian Souyez spacecraft which was delivering supplies.
NASA
A series of the NASA thermal blanket images
UFO sighting International Space Station ISS live 2016
Tune in to The Kev Baker Show tomorrow night from 11pm UK to hear our regular guest & Ufogist Ben Emlyn-Jones to discuss all of this and a whole lot more alien/ufo related topics!
Apollo Astronauts Heard Unexplained ‘Music’ On Far Side Of The Moon
The crew of an Apollo mission to the moon were so startled when they encountered strange music-like radio transmissions coming through their headsets, they didn't know whether or not to report it to NASA, it's been revealed. It was 1969, two months before Apollo 11's historic first manned landing on the moon, when Apollo 10 entered lunar orbit, which included traversing the far side of the moon when all spacecraft are out of radio contact with Earth for about an hour and nobody on Earth can see or hear them. As far as the public knew, everything about the mission went smoothly. Almost four decades went by before lost recordings emerged that revealed something unsettling that the three Apollo astronauts had experienced while flying above the far side of the moon.
The taped recordings contained "strange, otherworldly music coming through the Apollo module's radio," according to the upcoming Science Channel series, "NASA's Unexplained Files." The conversation between the three astronauts indicated they heard sounds like they had never heard before: "It sounds like, you know, outer space-type music." "You hear that? That whistling sound? Whooooooooo!" "Well, that sure is weird music!" The unexplained "music" transmission lasted almost an hour, and just before the astronauts regained radio contact with Earth, they discussed whether or not to tell Mission Control what they had experienced: "It's unbelievable! You know?" "Shall we tell them about it?" "I don't know. We ought to think about it." "The Apollo 10 crew was very used to the kind of noise that they should be hearing. Logic tells me that if there was something recorded on there, then there was something there," Apollo 15 astronaut Al Worden says on the Science Channel program. "NASA would withhold information from the public if they thought it was in the public's best interest." Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
Navy Engineer: I Saw Ancient Ruins, Aliens, And Top-Secret Bases In Antarctica!
On January 2nd, 2015 the editor of website earthfiles.com received a very unexpected letter from an alleged retired U.S. Navy Petty Officer First Class Flight Engineer.
The letter received recounts experiences where the anonymous Navy officer (refers to himself as “Brian”) recounts his bizarre and extraordinary experiences flying cargo and rescue in Antarctica between the years 1983 to 1997. He claims that a collaboration between humans and aliens exist, and that the Antarctica is a major research ground for these incredible collaborations.
Brian’s high strangeness experiences flying cargo and rescue in Antarctica were in the 1983 to 1997 time period and included several observations of aerial silver discs darting around over the Transantarctic Mountains. He and his crew also saw ancient ruins and a big hole in the ice only about five to ten miles from the geographic South Pole (pink circle on map) that was supposed to be a No Fly Zone. But during an emergency medevac situation, they entered the No Fly Zone and saw what they were not supposed to see: an alleged entrance to a human and E. T. science research base created under the ice. Then at a camp near Marie Byrd Land, some dozen scientists disappeared for two weeks and when they re-appeared, Brian’s flight crew got the assignment to pick them up. Brian says they would not talk and “their faces looked scared.”
In the strange letter sent to Earth Files the officer states that he experienced things such as:
Silver discs darting around over the Transantarctic Mountains
During an emergency they entered a No Fly Zone and saw an entrance to a human and E. T. science research base under the ice
His crew picked up a dozen scientists who had disappeared for two weeks previous. They would not talk and their faces looked scared.
He has decided to share what he experienced between those years in the following letter, reproduced in full below:
To: earthfiles@earthfiles.com Subject: Antarctica UFO Date: January 2, 2015
Hi Linda I am a retired United States Navy LC130 Flight Engineer that retired after 20 years of service in 1997. I have been wanting to write you for a long time about my experience on the Antarctic continent with flying vehicles that I was told not to talk about. I served part of my 20 years in the Navy with a Squadron called Antarctic Development Squadron Six or VXE-6 as it was also known. I served with this squadron from around 1983 till I retired March of 1997. Being a flight engineer and flying more then 4000 hours in that capacity I have seen things that most people have not even imagined on the Continent of Antarctica. The land there seems more alien then earthly. Our deployments to this land started in late September and ended the end of February every year until the Squadron was decommissioned in 1999. This time of year was the summer season when most of the science was done do to warmer temps and 24 hours of daylight.
During my time in the squadron I flew to almost every part of the Antarctic Continent including the South Pole more the 300 times. McMurdo Station which is 3.5 hours of flying time from the South Pole station was the point of squadron operation during our yearly deployments. Between these two stations is a mountain range called the Trans Antarctic’s. With what we called Severe Clear weather from McMurdo to South Pole the Trans Antarctic’s are visible from the altitudes which the aircraft flew approximately 25,000 to 35,000 feet. On several flights to and from South Pole our crew viewed air vehicles darting around the tops of Trans Antarctic’s almost exactly in the same spot every time we would fly by and view them. This is very unusual for air traffic down there due to the fact that the only aircraft flying on the continent were our squadron aircraft. Every aircraft knew where the other aircraft were do to flight schedules being followed.
Another unique issue with South Pole station is that our aircraft was not allowed to fly over a certain area designated 5 miles from the station. The reason stated because of a air sampling camp in that area. This did not make any sense to any of us on the crew because on 2 different occasions we had to fly over this area. One time due to a medical evacuation of the Australian camp called Davis Camp. It was on the opposite side of the continent and we had to refuel at South Pole and a direct course to this Davis Camp was right over the air sampling station. The only thing we saw going over this camp was a very large hole going into the ice. You could fly one of our LC130 into this thing.
It was after this medevac mission we where briefed by some spooks (Intelligence Agents I presumed) from Washington DC and told not to speak of the area we overflew. The other time we got close to “The air sampling Camp” we had navigation and electrical failures on the aircraft and was told to immediately depart the area and report to our squadron commanding officer when we returned to McMurdo. Needless to say our pilot (Aircraft Commander) got his butt chewed and our crew was not on the South Pole supply run for over a month. There were many other times we saw things that was out of the ordinary.
One outlying camp (near Marie Byrd Land) we dropped scientists and their equipment at was out of communication with McMurdo for 2 weeks. Our crew flew back to the camp to find out if the scientists were ok. We found no one there and no sign of any fowl play. The Radio was working fine as we called McMurdo to verify it working properly. We left the camp and flew back to McMurdo as ordered by our CO. A week later the Scientist showed back up to there camp and called McMurdo for someone to come pick them up. Our crew got the flight back there to pick them since we put them into that camp and we knew the terrain and location. None of the scientists would talk to any of the crew on the plane and to me they looked scared.
As soon as we landed back at McMurdo they (Scientists) where put on another of our squadron aircraft and flown to Christchurch New Zealand. We never heard about them again. Their equipment that we brought back from the camp was put in quarantine and shipped back to the United States escorted by the same spooks that debriefed us about our fly over of the air sample camp/ large hole in the ice. I could go on and on about things and situations that I observed during my tour with VXE-6. Talk among the flight crews was that there is a UFO base at South Pole and some of the crew heard talk from some of the scientist working at the Pole of EBEs working with and interacting with the scientists at that air sampling camp/large ice hole.
Brian, now 59 years old, graduated from an Iowa college with an associate’s degree in aviation maintenance technology and an aviation certificate. In 1977, he then enlisted in the U. S. Navy and served for twenty years until his retirement in 1997. He provided Earthfiles his DD-214 documents and other certificates of service including this Antarctic Service Medal given to him on November 20, 1984 as proof of his time in service.
There appears to be many secrets hidden in the Antarctica and we are pretty much hearing different stories every month about military personnel disclosing information about Aliens in that part of the world!
But what a great secluded part of the world for the Aliens to keep out of sight from prying eyes….or so they thought!
In the video below: Ancient megalithic city larger than some of the current mega-cities found in the photographs from orbit. Complex city with a pyramid and a giant megalithic structure in the shape of a swastika
Scientists Find Largest Rocky Planet Ever Discovered, Half as Big as Neptune
IN BRIEF
Kepler has discovered a rocky planet bigger than scientists ever thought was possible. Studying BD+20594b will allow scientists to learn more about the way planets form.
An illustration of a large, rocky planet similar to the recently discovered BD+20594b. Credit: JPL-Caltech/NASA
The Kepler Spacecraft, which has the ability to observe distant solar systems, has discovered arocky planet bigger than scientists ever thought was possible. Meet BD+20594b.
ROCKY COMPETITION
The former title holder of “biggest rocky planet” went to Kepler-10c, which has a radius more than double that of Earth. We thought this was as big as rocky planets could get.
Most of our understanding of planetary formation and solar system development has come from direct observation of our own Solar System. We simply couldn’t see any others, and we had no way of knowing how typical—or how strange—our own Solar System might be.
With the discovery of BD+20594b, though, we’re learning, and Kepler-10c has some intense competition. The new planet is about 16 times as massive as Earth and half the diameter of Neptune. Its density is about 8 grams per cubic centimeter (for comparison, Earth is 5.514 g/cm). This is rather dense, but it makes sense, as it’s composed entirely of rock.
The planet, whose existence was reported on January 28 at arXiv.org by astrophysicist Nestor Espinoza and his colleagues at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in Santiago, is over 500 light years away, in the constellation Aries. The planet was discovered last year, as it passed between Kepler and its host star. Luckily, the planet’s host star is exceptionally bright, allowing a more detailed observation than most exoplanets.
THE IMPORTANCE OF BD+20594B AND KEPLER
The discovery and further study of BD+20594b is important for a couple of reasons. It shows that there is still so much to learn about planetary formation. Kepler’s mission, which started off just confirming the existence of exoplanets, and showing us how common they are, will play a key role in furthering that research.
In addition, there’s much more variety in planetary composition than just what we see in our own solar system. Now that we have this new planet to compare to Kepler-10c, astrophysicists can do further research on planetary formation theories.
China Announces Three Brand New Gravitational Wave Projects
This illustration shows the gravitational waves thought to be produced by two orbiting white dwarf stars in a binary system called J0651, according to an August 2012 study.
China has proposals for gravitational wave observatories drafted, but will the government approve them? How will they affect the country's rank in space research?
A NEW PLAYER
The scientists at LIGO may be celebrating, but they’re about to have some stiff competition.
The People’s Republic of China now has three projects lined up to investigate gravitational waves as reported by the state media yesterday. These projects were decided upon just days after US scientists confirmed Einstein’s prediction.
The country has a military-run, multi-billion-dollar space program, and if it pursues gravitational wave research, officials say it could lead to China becoming preeminent in this field.
The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has already drafted a proposal for a project focusing on gravitational wave detection, as reported by the official Xinhua news agency. The proposal is named “Taiji,” which is a tribute to the “supreme ultimate” of Chinese philosophy. This philosophy is symbolized by the famous Yin and Yang, showing that contrary forces are complementary and interconnected.
Although there are several proposals in place, none of them have received a go signal from the Chinese government.
BECOMING A WORLD LEADER
Chinese physicist Hu Wenrui told the People’s Daily newspaper, the official mouthpiece of the Communist party: “If we launch our own satellites, we will have a chance to be a world leader” in gravitational wave research.
Success “depends on the decision-makers’ resolution and the country’s investment,” he added.
On the other hand, the Chinese Academy of Sciences said: “If we can participate in these sorts of extremely precise technological projects then in a short time it will give a huge boost to our country’s manufacturing industries.”
DISCOVERY OF THE YEAR
A graphic explaining LIGO’s detection of gravitational waves last September. Credit: Nature
Gravitational waves were predicted by Albert Einstein in 1916, and have remained an elusive and much-sought-after quarry for cosmologists ever since. Einstein used the theory of relativity as his basis, which states that gravitational waves transport energy as gravitational radiation—essentially, ripples in the fabric of spacetime.
Until recently, scientists had yet to prove this theory. But last week, the Advanced LIGO team announced that they were able to detect gravitational waves from a merger of two black holes about 400 megaparsecs (1.3 billion light years) from Earth, an event that was named GW150914.
The discovery has been heralded as the beginning of a new era for observational astronomy, and with news of the projected Chinese efforts in gravitational wave detection, along with the American and European projects already underway, the future promises a rich harvest of gravitational wave discoveries.
Craft taken over Oxford, Connecticut on February 17, 2016
Filer’s Files #8 2016 – NSA ET Contact Evidence- PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: General J. A. Samford and UFOs, UFO Graphics via Metrocosm, NSA Has the Smoking Gun Evidence of Alien Contact, Globular Clusters as Cradles of Life in Advanced Civilizations, Mercy ship Atlantic Ocean UFO, and Chosen: Chronicles of an Alien Abductee
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Alabama, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Idaho, Massachusetts, Montana, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, and West Virginia.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Argentina, Australia, Canada, Finland, Italy, Montenegro, Mexico, Peru, England in the United Kingdom, and Venezuela
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. Forward these files to your friends and neighbors.
George A. Filer III
New Jersey State Director
MUFON Eastern Region Director
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Special Projects
General J. A. Samford and UFOs
Credible observers reporting incredible objects,” said USAF General J. A. Samford in the year 1952, and his comment is still true today. Honest and intelligent people are still reporting strange objects that are difficult, and sometimes impossible, to relate to known physical phenomena. Enough attention has been brought to this serious problem that the US Government officially took action on two separate occasions. The first time was when it was thought that UFOs (Unidentified Flying Objects) might possibly be evidence of the technological capability of a foreign, but an Earth based power. In reaction to that possibility, the US Air Force Foreign Technology Division located at Wright Patterson Air Force Base was given the tough job of determining whether or not the mysterious UFOs were a threat to the security of the United States. Unfortunately, many people thought that the job was to determine exactly what the UFOs were. In the years, which have followed, the Air Force has been unjustly maligned for supposedly “covering up” the “real truth” about UFOs.
In actuality, the Air Force did precisely the job to which it was assigned. It determined the extent to which the UFOs threatened national security. The extent was found to be zero! However, the public was so unhappy with the lack of any real conclusions as to the nature of the UFOs, that the Government took further actions to resolve the issue. One of those actions, in 1966 it contracted for an independent scientific study to determine the real nature of UFOs.
UFO Graphics via Metrocosm
A new excellent map via Metrocosm says in sensational detail, the interactive map compiles more than 90,000 reports of UFO sightings in the United States since 1905. Data was taken from the National UFO Reporting Center and the Mutual UFO Network.
The glowing dots on the map represent witness reports, and are sized proportionately to the number of witness reports in each region for each particular sighting: small (individual report), medium (small group reports), and large (multiple witness reports).
Although Philadelphia itself has been fairly quiet on the UFO front, there have been plenty of UFO reports around the Philly area over the past hundred or so years, particularly in Burlington, New Jersey, where 75 witnesses report seeing “bright beam of light omitted from cylinder” on a September evening in 2007. Numerous sightings occur above the Delaware River shown has black ribbon on the map. Several reports often from police or military personnel indicate the UFOs may hide under water in the river.
The map’s detail includes sketches, photos, and even videos of strange sightings in the Philadelphia area and beyond. Just try not to get lost for hours wading through the first-person witness reports.
Check out this sighting in North Philadelphia in 2014:
I spotted two UFOs directly above my house. They were circular with orange/yellow type lights going around the outside of the two crafts. After a few minutes, one UFO turned off its lights. I could still see this craft even with the lights off. The craft with the lights off then proceeded north leaving the other behind and still lit up. At this point, I ran into my house for binoculars. The craft that was lit turned off its lights and proceeded north. I followed this one with my binoculars as it headed north. Neither UFO made any sound at all. They flew much faster than a commercial jet. Upon reaching a north point, they both picked up speed made a sharp right turn and were gone. My wife spied three more UFOs south of my house that were not lit up, and moved north at a fast rate of speed. During these ten minutes, every dog in the neighborhood was barking. We also smelled the smell of something burning. I do not know if the burnt smell and dogs were related but the dogs stopped barking and the smell went away. Sleep tight, Philly. · UFO Sightings Map [Metrocosm] · Mapping UFO Sightings All Around the D.C. Area [Curbed DC] · Mapping UFO Sightings All Around the Bay Area [Curbed SF] · “That was no flare”: 90,000 UFO sightings combined into one awesome m
NSA Has the Smoking Gun Evidence of Alien Contact
NSA Complex at Fort Meade, Maryland
Not a lot of people realize this but the National Security Agency (NSA) has on their website proof of Extraterrestrial contact under the title “Key to the Extraterrestrial messages” (found under NSA PDF). This is a hugely important step towards Disclosure and something, which is far too overlooked by the UFO community. The original document was cleared for public release back in October 2004, but strangely not ‘officially’ released into the Public Domain until April 2011! Such an important document needs to be seen by the world as this is on the NSA’s actual website, sat there waiting for all to see. We want Disclosure of Alien contact, then here you go! This treasure trove of documents available, one is particularly interesting from the NSA Technical Journal Vol. XIV No 1 with FOIA Case number 41472, which has been titled ‘Extraterrestrial Intelligence’. The document authored by a Dr. Campaigne, presents a series of 29 messages received from outer space.
Here’s an extremely interesting snippet from the journal: “Recently a series of radio messages was heard coming from outer space. The transmission was not continuous, but cut by pauses into pieces, which could be taken as units, for they were repeated over and over again. The pauses show here as punctuation. The various combinations have been represented by letters of the alphabet, so that the messages can be written down. Each message except the first is given here only once. The serial number of the messages has been supplied for each reference.” If anybody ever mocks you for believing in Aliens, then please feel free to steer them towards the NSA’s website!
NSA Document Admits ET Contact
On October 21, 2004, the NSA approved for release to the public a portion of their NSA Journal Vol. XIV No. 1. This is a report of a presentation given to the NSA by Dr. Howard Campaigne regarding the decoding of extraterrestrial messages that had been received “from outer space”. Apparently, these messages had actually been received via the Sputnik satellite, but no one had any idea how to decode them at the time. Dr. Howard Campaigne and some other NSA super mathematicians in the crypto department had been given the task of decoding the messages.
There were a total of 29 messages to be decoded — quite an undertaking. It is curious, to say the least, that this document was cleared for release on October 21, 2004. Why was that? Because the NSA did not release it into public information until April 21, 2011. Though cleared for release, the NSA had been stonewalling it along with hundreds of other NSA documents about contact with UFOs and extraterrestrials until they lost the lawsuit brought by Peter Gersten, a lawyer from Arizona. When they truly lost, the judge’s order had to be carried out, and the documents had to be released. It is curious, though, that during his presentation Dr. Campaigne mentions there are “words” that they have translated, and some “words” they have not yet begun to understand. He gives an example of a connective word that he knows is connective (joining two or more statements) but does not yet understand the translation of that word. Debunkers are scared of the release of this information as it proves beyond any doubt that they are, and always have been, dead wrong.
Globular Clusters as Cradles of Life in Advanced Civilizations
They will be able to send exploratory probes to nearby stars and receive data that takes only days, weeks, or months to reach them. They may be able to travel to nearby planetary systems that are hospitable and establish self-sustaining colonies over time scales far shorter than seems possible for advanced civilizations, which, like our own, inhabit the relatively diffuse Galactic disk. Civilizations spawned in a globular cluster may have opportunities to establish self-sustaining outposts, thereby reducing the probability that a single catastrophic event will destroy the civilization or its descendants. Although individual civilizations within a cluster may follow different evolutionary paths, or even be destroyed, the cluster may always host some advanced civilization, once a small number of them have managed to jump across interstellar space. Civilizations residing in globular clusters could therefore, in a sense, be immortal. PDF
Mercy ship Atlantic Ocean UFO
This happened one night back in 1991 while I was a volunteer on a Mercy ship traveling from Los Angeles, CA to Riga, Latvia. The sighting occurred in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. We had traveled from Los Angeles thru the Panama Canal to the Atlantic. We were traveling on a refurbished World War 2 freight ship. Therefore, it was not a fast ship, after the sighting it took about 4-5 days more to arrive in Germany. Since there is not much to do while at sea, my group of five friends went outside to the quarterdeck of the ship one evening (around 7:30 PM. We were talking and looking at the ocean, when all of the sudden a large lighted rectangular structure suddenly appeared on the ocean surface. It didn’t land or surface, it was as if someone just turned on the lights.
It had several colors of light and they appeared to be positioned on a sequential way and it was cover with light from top to bottom. Since it was at night and at sea, sizes and distances are hard to acquire. Also the rush of adrenaline since we had been trained to always report if we saw something close to the ship, as there are risks of accidents. The ship I was traveling was close to 300 feet long, and this structure was enormous about 5 to 10 times bigger than our ship long wise and about 3-5 times taller. It was suddenly there, and all were alarmed. We started to wonder if it could be a gigantic ship, but it looked too big even for a cruise ship. The size was bigger than any ship and was also practically just a huge rectangular shape or a net of lights. The lights were big and I would guess it had about 500 to 1000 lights, all distributed in a sequential or neat pattern. After a minute, we realized we needed to inform the bridge crew. I and another friend ran up the stairs to inform the crew and when we walked into the flight bridge and you could tell they were alarmed. The First Mate was giving orders and the situation seems a bit stressed out. Once we could talk, we told them, “We saw something big with lots of light very close to the ship”. The First Mate told us that, “It all of a sudden disappeared from the radar”. We stayed there talking with the crew and wondering what it was. Several other crew members at the flight bridge had also seen the structure and were making arrangements to communicate with whatever was nearby. They had seen it on the radar, but it quickly disappeared from the radar and also visually, as if someone just had turned the lights off.
Regarding the location: I wrote Dominican Republic as this was perhaps the closest thing I could find on the map. But, the sighting took place in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. We witnesses talked about it and we all had seen the same thing. Unfortunately, none of us had a camera. It would be interesting to find out if this was documented in the ship’s log. The Picture shows a comparison between the ship and the lighted structure in the ocean. The images were put together using images found online and remember the sighting was at night. Thanks to MUFON CM.
Chosen: Chronicles of an Alien Abductee
Can you imagine the helplessness and fear that a five-year-old would feel when he is first visited by extraterrestrials? How about the look on his parents’ faces when he confesses his alien encounter? This is Byron W. Lacy’s firsthand account of what modern science insists is only folklore.
The first encounters come when he is young—with “little men” entering the room as he hugs his teddy bear. They masquerade as cartoon characters to ease his concern, a dancing Captain Hook—minus the hook—joining his comrades. Future visits lead to psychic connections with his visitors.
Admitting such encounters takes courage, especially when similar comments by a family member placed her in a mental hospital. But Lacy lays it all out on the table as he details what it’s like to be an alien abductee.
Chosen: Chronicle of an Alien Abductee isn’t just for the disbelievers. It’s a free discussion of Lacy’s experience—one meant to encourage other abductees through their own moments of skepticism both from others and within.
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